Sale: 512 / Modern Art II, Dec. 12. 2020 in Munich Lot 442

 

442
Margarethe Moll
Eule, 1926.
Bronze with red brown patina
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,560
Sold:
€ 17,500 / $ 18,725

(incl. surcharge)
Eule. 1926.
Bronze with red brown patina.
Verso with the artist's name. One of 5 known casts. Height: 24.5 cm (9.6 in).

• Early lifetime cast.
• Copies of this bronze have only been offered twice on the international auction market.
• Marg Moll is one of the few female sculptors active at the beginning of the 20th century.
• While the sculpture is made in a strongly reduced style it still has all carateristic features
.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Bildhauerinnen, von Kollwitz bis Gensken, Heilbronn und Bremen, November 10, .2018 -March 31, 2019.

LITERATURE: Werner Filmer, Marg Moll. Eine deutsche Bildhauerin 1884-1977, Bergisch Gladbach 2013, illu. on p. 73.




442
Margarethe Moll
Eule, 1926.
Bronze with red brown patina
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,560
Sold:
€ 17,500 / $ 18,725

(incl. surcharge)