Sale: 428 / Modern Art, Dec. 03./05. 2015 in Munich Lot 39

 

39
Ernst Barlach
Kussgruppe II, 1921.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800
Sold:
€ 12,500 / $ 13,500

(incl. surcharge)
Kussgruppe II. 1921.
Bronze with brown patina.
Laur 324. With name and foundry mark "Noack Berlin" on side of plinth. One of together 20 copies, partly made posthumously. 16.2 x 19.5 x 11.5 cm (6.3 x 7.6 x 4.5 in).
Cast by art foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin. [JS].

Accompanied by an expertise issued by the Ernst Barlach Lizenzverwaltung, Ratzeburg, dated 10 September, 2015.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

LITERATURE: (each presumably diffeent copy)
Bronzen von Ernst Barlach, ex. cat. Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin et al 1930, cat. no. 12.
Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, inventory catalog of 'Österreichische Galerie des 20. Jahrhunderts', Vienna 1993, p. 41.




39
Ernst Barlach
Kussgruppe II, 1921.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800
Sold:
€ 12,500 / $ 13,500

(incl. surcharge)