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Property Sold by Order of
The Trustees of the
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
to benefit its Acquisition Program*
GERHARD MARCKS (1889-1981)
Details
GERHARD MARCKS (1889-1981)
Grosser Hahn
signed with artist's cipher, numbered and stamped on the underside 3/5 RICH BARTH BLN MARIENDORF--bronze with brown patina on a wooden base
Height: 19¾in. (50cm.)
Conceived in 1952 and cast in an edition of five and two artist's proofs
Grosser Hahn
signed with artist's cipher, numbered and stamped on the underside 3/5 RICH BARTH BLN MARIENDORF--bronze with brown patina on a wooden base
Height: 19¾in. (50cm.)
Conceived in 1952 and cast in an edition of five and two artist's proofs
Provenance
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York (to Nov. 1954)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (Nov. 1954-May 1966)
Gift to the Hirshhorn Museum (1966)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (Nov. 1954-May 1966)
Gift to the Hirshhorn Museum (1966)
Literature
G. Busch, Gerhard Marcks Das Plastische Werk, Frankfurt, 1977, p. 364, no. 577 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Waltham, Massacusetts, Brandeis University, Three Collections, June 1955, no. 28
Detroit Institute of Arts, Sculpture in our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, May-Aug. 1959, p. 67, no. 143 (illustrated)
The exhibition traveled to Milwaukee Art Center, Sept.-Oct. 1959; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Oct.-Dec. 1959; Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Dec.1959-Jan.-1960; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, March 1960; Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, April-May 1960; San Francisco, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, May-July 1960; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, July-Sept. 1960; Art Gallery of Toronto, Sept.-Oct. 1960
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, The Animal in Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Nov. 1977-Jan. 1978, no. 39 (illustrated)
Detroit Institute of Arts, Sculpture in our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, May-Aug. 1959, p. 67, no. 143 (illustrated)
The exhibition traveled to Milwaukee Art Center, Sept.-Oct. 1959; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Oct.-Dec. 1959; Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Dec.1959-Jan.-1960; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, March 1960; Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, April-May 1960; San Francisco, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, May-July 1960; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, July-Sept. 1960; Art Gallery of Toronto, Sept.-Oct. 1960
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, The Animal in Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Nov. 1977-Jan. 1978, no. 39 (illustrated)