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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2018 | VENUS SICH DIE HAARE AUFBINDEND (VENUS UNTYING HER HAIR) | 1 | Sotheby's | Online | |||
sculpture
143.5 cm (56.5 in)
Bronze
Inscribed with the artist's monogram, stamped with the foundry mark Guss Barth, Berlin and numbered 1/6
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (and sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, April 4, 1968, lot 172)
Mrs. L. Doniger, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Thence by descent
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, A Comprehensive Exhibition of Bronze Sculpture by Gerhard Marcks, 1967, no. 26, illustrated in the catalogue
Gerhard Marcks (exhibition catalogue), Graphisches Kabinett Baedecker, Essen, 1963, illustration of another cast n.p.
Acht Kölner Bildhauer (exhibition catalogue), Stadthalle Köln-Mülheim, Köln, 1964, no. 60, illustration of another cast n.p.
Gerhard Marcks (exhibition catalogue), Katharinenkirche, Lübeck, 1964, illustration of another cast n.p.
Gerhard Marcks—Handzeichnungen, Holzschnitte und Plastiken (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Brumme, Frankfurt, 1969, no. 77, illustration of another cast n.p.
Gerhard Marcks—zum zchtzigsten Geburtstag (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, 1969, no. 65, illustration of another cast n.p.
Gerhard Marcks, Plastiken Zeichnungen Graphik (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Ketterer, Munich, 1971, no. 43, illustration of another cast p. 26
Gerhard Marcks (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin, Paris, 1971-72, no. 45, illustration of another cast n.p.
Günter Busch, Gerhard Marcks, Das Plastische Werk, Bremen, 1977, no. 748, illustration of another cast p. 412
Property from a Boston, Massachusetts Collector
GERHARD MARCKS
1889 - 1981
VENUS SICH DIE HAARE AUFBINDEND (VENUS UNTYING HER HAIR)
Inscribed with the artist's monogram, stamped with the foundry mark Guss Barth, Berlin and numbered 1/6
Bronze
Height: 56½ in. (143.5 cm)
Conceived in 1960 and cast by the Guss Barth Foundry, Berlin in 1962 in a numbered edition of 6.
