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Two sculptures in one lot (2)
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GERHARD MARCKS (1899-1981)
Zwei Frauen
signed with cipher and numbered on the back 'V', stamped on the underside 'RICH BARTH BLN. MARIENDORF'--bronze with brown patina
Height: 9¾in. (24.cm.)
Original version executed in 1935; this bronze version cast at a later date, number five in an edition of at least seven
LITERATURE:
A. Reith, Gerhard Marcks, Recklinghausen, 1959, p. 15
G. Busch and M. Rudloff, Gerhard Marcks: Das plastiche Werk, Berlin, 1977,
no. 317 (another cast illustrated, p. 298)
U. Forster (20th Century)
Stehender Mann
signed on the back of the base 'U. Forster"--bronze with brown patina
Height: 5 5/8in. (14.3cm.)
Zwei Frauen
signed with cipher and numbered on the back 'V', stamped on the underside 'RICH BARTH BLN. MARIENDORF'--bronze with brown patina
Height: 9¾in. (24.cm.)
Original version executed in 1935; this bronze version cast at a later date, number five in an edition of at least seven
LITERATURE:
A. Reith, Gerhard Marcks, Recklinghausen, 1959, p. 15
G. Busch and M. Rudloff, Gerhard Marcks: Das plastiche Werk, Berlin, 1977,
no. 317 (another cast illustrated, p. 298)
U. Forster (20th Century)
Stehender Mann
signed on the back of the base 'U. Forster"--bronze with brown patina
Height: 5 5/8in. (14.3cm.)
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