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Hockender gnom
Details
Gerhard Marcks (1889-1981)
Hockender gnom
inscribed with monogram, numbered, and stamped with foundry mark 'IV GUSS. BARTH BERLIN' (on the back)
bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 14½ in. (36.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1954; this bronze version cast at a later date
Hockender gnom
inscribed with monogram, numbered, and stamped with foundry mark 'IV GUSS. BARTH BERLIN' (on the back)
bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 14½ in. (36.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1954; this bronze version cast at a later date
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner, December 1985.
Literature
G. Busch and M. Rudloff, Gerhard Marcks, Das Plastische Werk, Frankfurt, 1977, p. 375, no. 617 (another cast illustrated).