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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2018 | Hockender Neger | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | ||||
| May 22, 2012 | Hockender Neger (Crouching African) | 7 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | |||
sculpture
27.9 x 25.4 x 27 cm (10.98 x 10 x 10.63 in)
Bronze with brown patina
With artuist's signed on sole of right foot, left sole with number and foundry mark "Rich. Barth Bln Mariendorf"
Private collection Switzerland.
(selection, each presumably different copy)
Gerhard Marcks, Kýlner Kunstverein, Cologne, May 4, 1957 - June 16, 1957, cat. no. 41 (with illu.).
Gerhard Marcks. Paintings, Watercolors, Sculpture, Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, 1958, cat. no. 20 (with illu.).
Gerhard Marcks. Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1964, cat. no. 40 (with illu.).
Gerhard Marcks. Plastik, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1964, cat. no. 39.
Gerhard Marcks, Musýe Rodin, Paris, 1971/72, cat. no. 31 (with illu.).
Gerhard Marcks. Ausgewýhlte Plastiken, Graphisches Kabinett Werner, Bremen, 1972, GM, cat. no. 14 (with illu.).
(selection)
Weiýgýrber, Helga, Arbeiten von Gerhard Marcks in Kýln, in: Bildende Kunst, 1957, issue 11, p. 785.
Feist, Peter, Die Kraft der Stille, in: Bildende Kunst, 1969, issue 2, p. 77, illu. 5.
Werner, Alfred, The Form of Nature, in: American Artist, 1971, illu. on p. 35.
Hockender Neger. 1956.
Bronze with brown patina.
Rudloff 640. With artuist's signet on sole of right foot, left sole with number and foundry mark "Rich. Barth Bln Mariendorf". From an edition of 8 copies. 27.9 x 25.4 x 27 cm (10.9 x 10 x 10.6 in).
This copy was cast by the art foundry Richard Barth, Berlin, in 1958 . [CH].
We are grateful to Dr. Arie Hartog for his kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Switzerland.
EXHIBITION: (selection, each presumably different copy)
Gerhard Marcks, Kýlner Kunstverein, Cologne, May 4, 1957 - June 16, 1957, cat. no. 41 (with illu.).
Gerhard Marcks. Paintings, Watercolors, Sculpture, Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, 1958, cat. no. 20 (with illu.).
Gerhard Marcks. Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1964, cat. no. 40 (with illu.).
Gerhard Marcks. Plastik, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1964, cat. no. 39.
Gerhard Marcks, Musýe Rodin, Paris, 1971/72, cat. no. 31 (with illu.).
Gerhard Marcks. Ausgewýhlte Plastiken, Graphisches Kabinett Werner, Bremen, 1972, GM, cat. no. 14 (with illu.).
LITERATURE: (selection)
Weiýgýrber, Helga, Arbeiten von Gerhard Marcks in Kýln, in: Bildende Kunst, 1957, issue 11, p. 785.
Feist, Peter, Die Kraft der Stille, in: Bildende Kunst, 1969, issue 2, p. 77, illu. 5.
Werner, Alfred, The Form of Nature, in: American Artist, 1971, illu. on p. 35.
