Lot 943
  • 943

Gerhard Marcks

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gerhard Marcks
  • Maximilian
  • inscribed with the artist's monogram
  • bronze
  • height: 120cm., 47 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1939 and cast in bronze by Barth, Berlin. This work is unique.

Provenance

Galerie Günther Franke, Munich
Paul Beck, Stuttgart (acquired from the above in 1939)
Rainer Beck, Dresden (acquired by descent from the above)
Sotheby's, London, The Beck Sale, 9 October 2002, lot 172

Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Buchholz, Carl Crodel - Renée Sintenis - Gerhard Marcks - Gustav Seitz, 1939-40, no. 28
Tübingen, Kunstgebäde, Moderne deutsche Kunst, 1947, no. 193

Literature

Martina Rudloff & Günther Busch (ed.), Gerhard Marcks, Das Plastische Werk, Frankfurt, 1977, no. 363, illustrated p. 307

Condition

Dark green patina. Signs of weathering are visible due to the sculpture having been placed outdoors. Due to recent cleaning, the streaking from water run staining is less pronounced, and there is more depth to the surface than it appears in the catalogue illustration.
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