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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)
Hockender Araber
signed with artist's cipher and stamped on the underside RICH. BARTH BLN MARIENDORF--bronze with brown patina
Height: 4¾in. (12cm.)
Conceived in 1956 and executed in an edition of 12 numbered casts, one unnumbered and two numbered A and B
Hockender Araber
signed with artist's cipher and stamped on the underside RICH. BARTH BLN MARIENDORF--bronze with brown patina
Height: 4¾in. (12cm.)
Conceived in 1956 and executed in an edition of 12 numbered casts, one unnumbered and two numbered A and B
Provenance
Fine Arts Associates, New York (to March 1958)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (March 1958-May 1966)
Gift to the Hirshhorn Museum (1966)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (March 1958-May 1966)
Gift to the Hirshhorn Museum (1966)
Literature
G. Busch, Gerhard Marcks Das Plastische Werk, Frankfurt, 1977, p. 388, no. 656 (illustrated)
Exhibited
New York, Fine Arts Associates, Gerhard Marcks: Recent Sculpture, March-April 1958, no. 24 (illustrated)
Detroit Institute of Arts, Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, May-Aug. 1959, no. 145. 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 1959; 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
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Oct. 1962-Jan. 1963, no. 277
Detroit Institute of Arts, Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, May-Aug. 1959, no. 145. 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 1959; 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
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Oct. 1962-Jan. 1963, no. 277