Lot 250
  • 250

GEORG KOLBE | Kniende (Kneeling Woman)

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Georg Kolbe
  • Kniende (Kneeling Woman)
  • Inscribed with the initials GK, stamped Made in Germany and with the foundry mark H. Noack Berlin Friedenau
  • Bronze
  • Height: 20 3/8 in.
  • 51.7 cm
  • Conceived in 1928 and cast between 1928 and 1929.

Provenance

Anna Eugenia LaChapelle Clark & William Andrews Clark, New York 
Adele Marié, New York (a gift from the above) 
Milton B. Steinmann, New York (by descent from the above) 
Thence by descent

Literature

Rudolf G. Binding, Georg Kolbe, Berlin, 1933, n.n., illustration of another cast p. 12
Ursel Berger, Georg Kolbe—Leben und Werk, mit dem Katalog-Plastiken im Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, 1990, no. 115, illustrated p. 313

Condition

The work features a variegated golden brown patina. There is some dust in the deeper crevices. The work is in very good condition.
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