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A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection

Käthe Kollwitz

Turm der Mütter (Tower of Mothers)

Auction Closed

May 20, 02:46 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection

Käthe Kollwitz

1867 - 1945


Turm der Mütter (Tower of Mothers)

inscribed K. Kollwitz and stamped with foundry mark H. Noack Berlin 

bronze

height: 11 ⅛ in. 28.3 cm.

Conceived in 1937-38 and cast after 1945.

Estate of the artist

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 13 December 1961, lot 31 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Adolf Heilborn, Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin, 1949, p. 88, illustration of another cast

Harald Isenstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Oslo, 1949, p. 63, fig. A., illustration of another cast

Gerhard Strauss, Käthe Kollwitz, Dresden, 1950, pp. 156-57 and 167, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Düsseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel, Käthe Kollwitz. Das plastische Werk, 1955, no. 5, illustration of another cast; p. 167

Mina C. Klein and H. Arthur Klein, Käthe Kollwitz, Life in Art, 1972, p. 141, illustration of another cast

Herausgegeben von Herwig Guratzsh, ed., Käthe Kollwitz, Druckgraphik, Handzeichnungen, Plastik, 1990, no. 55, p. 60, illustration of another cast; p. 72

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Käthe Kollwitz, 1992, no. 106, p. 64, illustration in color of another cast; p. 172

Annette Seeler, Käthe Kollwitz, Die plastik Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 2016, no. 35, model III.B.2., p. 154, illustration in color of another cast; p. 164

Annette Seeler, Käthe Kollwitz, Die plastik Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 2019, no. 35, model III.B.2., p. 176, illustration in color of another cast; p. 189