Lot 68
  • 68

Gerhard Marcks

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gerhard Marcks
  • Schaferin (Girl with Lifted Hands)
  • Inscribed with the artist's insignia, numbered II and with the foundry mark Rich.Barth BLN. Mariendorf (on the base) 
  • Bronze
  • Height: 24 3/4 in.
  • 63 cm
  • Conceived in 1945 and cast in an edition of 7; this example cast in the early 1950s.

Provenance

Valentin Gallery, New York
Purchased with the John J. O'Neill Bequest Fund in 1955

Literature

Günter Busch & Martina Rudloff, Gerhard Marcks, Das Plastische Werk, Frankfurt am Main, 1977, no. 485, illustration of another cast p. 335 

Condition

In good condition aside from surface dirt and a few very minor and scattered pin dots of white, most possibly old wax and one or two possibly house paint.
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