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Property from the Honour Dickerman Brown Collection

Renée Sintenis

Große Daphne (Large Daphne)

Lot Closed

April 7, 12:42 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Renée Sintenis

1888 - 1965

Große Daphne (Large Daphne)

inscribed with the artist's initials RS, with the foundry mark H. NOACK BERLIN-FRIEDENAU and numbered II

bronze

Height: 145 cm., 57 in.

Conceived in 1930 and cast in 1930-1931, this work is from an edition of at least 13.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Dr. Ursel Berger, Berlin.

William C Dickerman & Alice Carter Dickerman, East Hampton (acquired in the 1930s)

Honour Dickerman Brown, Conneticut (acquired by descent from the above in 1946)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Hannah Kiel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin, 1935, another cast illustrated pp. 4 and 68-69

Alfred Hentzen, Deutsche Bildhauer der Gegenwart, Berlin, circa 1936, another cast illustrated p. 61

Bruno E. Werner, Die Deutsche Plastik der Gegenwart, Berlin, 1940, another cast illustrated p. 62

Rudolf Hagelstange, Renée Sintenis, Berlin, 1940, another cast illustrated pp. 84-86

Alfred Barr, Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948, another cast illustrated pp. 148 and 321

Adolf Jannasch, Renée Sintenis, Potsdam, 1949, another cast illustrated pp. 22-23

Ulrich Gertz, Plastik der Gegenwart, Berlin, 1953, another cast illustrated p. 129

Hannah Kiel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin, 1956, another cast illustrated pp. 44-45

Alfred Barr, Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, another cast illustrated p. 56

Gert von der Osten, Plastik des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Königsten, 1962, another cast illustrated p. 7

Hildegard Westhoff-Krummacher, Die Bildwerke seit etwa 1800 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und im öffentlichen Besitz der Stadt Köln, Cologne, 1965, another cast illustrated p. 243

Lübecker Museumsführer, Verzeichnis: Das Behnhaus, Lübeck, 1967, no. 222, another cast illustrated pp. 202 and 589

Britta E. Buhlmann, Renée Sintenis: Werkmonographie der Skulpturen, Darmstadt, 1987, no. 68, another cast illustrated p. 177

Ursel Berger & Günther Ladwig, Renée Sintenis, Das Plastische Werk, Berlin, 2013, no. 117, another cast illustrated p. 46 and 116

Renée Sintenis Zwischen Freiheit und Moderne. Die Bildhauerin Renée Sintenis (exhibition catalogue), Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, 2019-2020, another cast illustrated pp. 88-93