Lot Essay
Another cast can be found in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
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Spinoza
Details
Joseph Mendes da Costa (1863-1939)
Spinoza
signed with monogram and dated '1909' (on the base) and inscribed with title 'Beatitudo Baruch de Spinoza' (on the side of the base), and inscribed with foundry mark 'fonderie natle des bronzes/J Petermann/St Gilles-Bruxelles' (along the edge of the base)
bronze
33 cm. high (incl. bronze base)
Conceived in 1909 and cast in an edition of circa twelve.
Spinoza
signed with monogram and dated '1909' (on the base) and inscribed with title 'Beatitudo Baruch de Spinoza' (on the side of the base), and inscribed with foundry mark 'fonderie natle des bronzes/J Petermann/St Gilles-Bruxelles' (along the edge of the base)
bronze
33 cm. high (incl. bronze base)
Conceived in 1909 and cast in an edition of circa twelve.
Provenance
Acquired from H.P. Bremmer by the previous owners.
Literature
Moderne Kunst, VIII (1910), no.?, no. 95 (ill. of another cast)
Wendingen, Maandblad voor Bouwen en sieren van architectura et amicitae, V (1923) no. 5 and 6, p. 6 (ill. of another cast)
A.M. Hammacher, Mendes da Costa. De geestlijke boodschap der beeldhouwkunst., Rotterdam 1941, no. 29 (ill. of another cast)
A.M. Hammacher, Beeldhouwkunst van deze eeuw en een schets van haar ontwikkeling in de negentiende eeuw, Amsterdam 1955, no. 29 (ill. of another cast)
Kunstschrift, XLI (1997), no. 1 (Joseph Mendes da Costa special), p. 26, no. 33 (ill. of another cast), p. 34, no. 48 (ill. of another cast)
Wendingen, Maandblad voor Bouwen en sieren van architectura et amicitae, V (1923) no. 5 and 6, p. 6 (ill. of another cast)
A.M. Hammacher, Mendes da Costa. De geestlijke boodschap der beeldhouwkunst., Rotterdam 1941, no. 29 (ill. of another cast)
A.M. Hammacher, Beeldhouwkunst van deze eeuw en een schets van haar ontwikkeling in de negentiende eeuw, Amsterdam 1955, no. 29 (ill. of another cast)
Kunstschrift, XLI (1997), no. 1 (Joseph Mendes da Costa special), p. 26, no. 33 (ill. of another cast), p. 34, no. 48 (ill. of another cast)
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Museum Fodor, De bevrijding van het beeld, May 1989 (ill. of another cast in de catalogue)
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