Otto Gutfreund

Sale: Sotheby's, London, 20 October 1999, lot 594
Purchased at the above sale

Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, Pražské noci / Prague Nights: Czech Modern Art from the Hascoe Collection, 2007

Josef Cisarovsky, Otto Gutfreund, Prague, 1962, nos. 93 & 94, illustrations of another cast
Otto Gutfreund, National Gallery, Prague, exh. cat., 1995, p. 242, no. 215, illustration of another cast
Jiří Hlušička, The Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art, Prague, 2004, p. 25, mentioned; p. 201, no. S100, catalogued; p. 112 , pl. 96, illustrated

Bronze, rich brown patina, overall in good condition.
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Conceived in 1924. This is a posthumous cast.