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Lot 391
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
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Description

  • Wilhelm Lehmbruck
  • BADENDE (BATHER)
  • inscribed W. Lehmbruck DF. and dated 1902
  • bronze
  • height: 66cm., 26in.

Provenance

Liesel Fleck, Düsseldorf
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Gedächtnisausstellung zum 75. Geburtstag des Künstlers (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthaus Zürich, 1956, no. 1, another cast
Siegfried Salzmann, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Katalog der Sammlung des Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museums der Stadt Duisburg, no. 7, illustration of another cast p. 35
Dietrich Schubert, Die Kunst Lehmbrucks, Worms, 1990, illustration of another cast no. 31 & pl. 18 n.p.
Margarita C. Lahusen, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Gemälde und grossformatige Zeichnungen, Munich, 1997, no. 14, illustration of another cast p. 28 
Dietrich Schubert, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Catalogue raisonné der Skulpturen, 1898-1919, Worms, 2001, no. 12 , illustration of other casts pp. 14, 57, 162, 163 & 164
Katharina Barbara Leeper & Christoph Brockhaus, Wilhelm Lehmbruck 1881-1919, Duisburg, 2005, no. 7.1, illustration of another cast p. 47

Condition

Atrractive black patina. Apart from some light surface dirt and dust mainly to the crevices and some evidence of the casting rod on her right breast (inherent to the casting process), this work is in overall very good condition.
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