GEORG KOLBE (1877-1947)

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GEORG KOLBE (1877-1947)

Kleine Pieta

signed with monogram and stamped on the right foot 'H. NOACK BERLIN'--bronze with light brown patina
Height: 14¾in. (37.5cm.)
Original version executed in 1928; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition of approximately 15
Provenance
The Cantor-Fitzgerald Group, Ltd., Beverly Hills
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, Feb. 18, 1988, lot 57 (acquired by the present owner)
Literature
L. Justi, Georg Kolbe, Berlin, 1931, p. 25, no. 7 (another cast illustrated)
G. Kolbe, Georg Kolbe 100 Lichtdrucktafeln, Berlin, 1931, no. 92 (large version illustrated)
W. Pinder, Georg Kolbe, Berlin, 1937, pp. 34-35 (large version illustrated)
U. Berger, Georg Kolbe--Leben und Werk, Berlin, 1990, no. 121 (another cast illustrated, p. 317)
Exhibited
Indianapolis, Museum of Art, Dec., 1973-Sept., 1974 (on loan)
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, April, 1975-Aug., 1976 (on loan)

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