Back side
771
Gerhard Marcks
Ziegenbock, 1963.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,000 Sold:
€ 32,500 / $ 35,750 (incl. surcharge)
Ziegenbock. 1963.
Bronze with brown patina.
Rudloff 810. With the artist's signet on the plinth. Rear of plinth with a number and the foundry mark "Guss Schmäke D'dorf". One of 3 casts. Ca. 97.5 x 122 x 69 cm (38.3 x 48 x 27.1 in).
This bronze was comissioned by the municipality Köln-Deutz for a fountain figure. Marcks made the first scultpure of a goat in 1918 for the ceramics manufactory Velten-Vordamm (Rudloff 52). Earliest drawings of goats can be found in sketchbooks from around 1904. [EL].
PROVENANCE: Private collection Morsum.
Private collection Southern Germany.
EXHIBITION: A Comprehensive Exhibition of Bronze Sculpture by Gerhard Marcks, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York 1967, cat. no. 66, with illu. (different copy).
LITERATURE: Sothebys Parke-Bernet, auction 2832, New York, 1969, lot 14, with illu.
Neumeister, 20th Century Art, Munich 2000, lot 189, with illu.
Bronze with brown patina.
Rudloff 810. With the artist's signet on the plinth. Rear of plinth with a number and the foundry mark "Guss Schmäke D'dorf". One of 3 casts. Ca. 97.5 x 122 x 69 cm (38.3 x 48 x 27.1 in).
This bronze was comissioned by the municipality Köln-Deutz for a fountain figure. Marcks made the first scultpure of a goat in 1918 for the ceramics manufactory Velten-Vordamm (Rudloff 52). Earliest drawings of goats can be found in sketchbooks from around 1904. [EL].
PROVENANCE: Private collection Morsum.
Private collection Southern Germany.
EXHIBITION: A Comprehensive Exhibition of Bronze Sculpture by Gerhard Marcks, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York 1967, cat. no. 66, with illu. (different copy).
LITERATURE: Sothebys Parke-Bernet, auction 2832, New York, 1969, lot 14, with illu.
Neumeister, 20th Century Art, Munich 2000, lot 189, with illu.
771
Gerhard Marcks
Ziegenbock, 1963.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,000 Sold:
€ 32,500 / $ 35,750 (incl. surcharge)