Sitzende. 1926.
Bronze with gold-brown patina.
Berger 91. With monogram in ligature and the foundry mark: "H. Noack Berlin Friedenau" on the base. One 66 lifetime casts. 28.5 x 25.5 x 18 cm (11.2 x 10 x 7 in).
An excellent early cast of one of Kolbe's most popular sculptures.
With a written expertise from Dr. Ursel Berger dated 20 October, 2016.
PROVENANCE: Collection Paul and Herta Rohs, Radevormwald.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
EXHIBITION: Other copies are in possession of the following museums:
Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen.
Collections of the city of Magdeburg.
LITERATURE: Each different copy:
Richard Scheibe und Georg Kolbe. Georg Kolbe 100 Lichtdrucktafeln. Marburg 1931, plates 54 and 55 a,b.
Rudolf G. Binding. Vom Leben der Plastik. Inhalt und Schönheit des Werkes von Georg Kolbe. Berlin, no date (around 1936), p. 40 with illu.