Property from the Collection of Erich & Senta Goeritz
Ernst Barlach
Tanzende Alte (Dancing Old Woman)
Auction Closed
March 5, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Ernst Barlach
1870 - 1938
Tanzende Alte (Dancing Old Woman)
signed E Barlach and dated 1920 (on the base)
carved fruitwood
height: 49.5 cm. 19½ in.
Executed in 1920, this work is unique.
Erich and Senta Goeritz, Berlin and London (acquired by 1922-1923)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Ernst Barlach, Holzbildwerke, 1926, no. 20 (titled Tanzendes Weiß)
Ernst Barlach, Ein selbsterzähltes Leben, Berlin, 1928, no. 40, pl. XLV, illustrated
Carl Dietrich Carls, Ernst Barlach, Das plastische, graphische und dichterische Werk, Berlin, 1950, p. 43, illustrated
Friedrich Schult, Ernst Barlach, Das plastische Werk, Hamburg, 1960, no. 225, p. 135, illustrated
Carl Dietrich Carls, Ernst Barlach, London, 1969, p. 72, illustrated
Anita Beloubek-Hammer, Ernst Barlach: Plastische Meisterwerke, Leipzich, 1996, pp. 11-12
Elisabeth Laur, Ernst Barlach: Das plastische Werk, Gustrow, 2006, no. 292, p. 162, illustrated