GERHARD MARCKS (1881-1981)
GERHARD MARCKS (1881-1981)
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GERHARD MARCKS (1881-1981)

Gürtelbinderin

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GERHARD MARCKS (1881-1981)
Gürtelbinderin
signed with the artist's monogram (on top of the base); stamped with the foundry mark 'GUSS. BARTH BLN. MARIENDORF' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 21 ¼ in. (54 cm.)
Conceived in 1958; this example cast in bronze in 1959

red-painted Ford Inventory No. C-40 to base
Provenance
Otto Gerson, New York, by 1961, a gift from the artist.
Mr Henry Ford II, Grosse Pointe Farms, Palm Beach & London, and thence by descent.
Literature
The artist's handlist, no. 479.
Exh. cat., Gerhard Marcks, Los Angeles, 1969, no. 35, p. 122 (another cast illustrated p. 56).
G. Busch & M. Rudloff, Gerhard Marcks, Das Plastische werk, Frankfurt, 1977, no. 694, pp. 398-399 (another cast illustrated p. 398 & figs. 62a & 62b, n.p.).
Exh. cat., Gerhard Marcks, Retrospektive, Munich, 1989, no. 344, p. 338 (another cast illustrated p. 341).
Exhibited
New York, Otto Gerson Gallery, Gerhard Marcks, Recent Sculptures, January - February 1961.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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