Georg Kolbe (1877-1947)

Statuette III: Herabsteigende (Standing Nude)

Details
Georg Kolbe (1877-1947)
Statuette III: Herabsteigende (Standing Nude)
signed with monogram 'G.K.' (on the top of the base)--stamped with foundry mark 'H. NOACK BERLIN' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 15 in. (40 cm.)
Width: 7 in. (18.4 cm.)
Depth: 6 in. (15.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1925; this bronze version cast after 1939
Provenance
Private collection, London
Literature
R. Scheibe, Georg Kolbe 100 Lichtdrucktafeln, Marburg, 1931, fig. 42b (another cast illustrated).
I. Beucker, Georg Kolbe auf Wegen der Kunst, Schriften, Skizzen, Plastiken, Berlin, 1949, pl. 102 (another cast illustrated).
U. Berger, Georg Kolbe Leben und Werk mit dem Katalog der Kolbe--Plastiken in Georg-Kolbe-Museum Berlin, Berlin, 1990, p. 287, no. 84 (another cast illustrated, p. 286).