AMER AUGUST 2015
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/24/2015
GEORG KOLBE (German, 1877-1947) "SITZENDE"Bronze
Signed on base with initials "GK" also foundry H. Noack, Berlin
Literature:
Rudolf G. Binding, Vom Leben der Plastik, Inhalt und Schönheit des Werkes von Georg Kolbe, Berlin, 1933, illustration of another cast p. 40;
Ursel Berger, Georg Kolbe - Leben und Werk, Berlin, 1990, no. 91, illustration of another cast p. 293.
Ursel Berger, Georg Kolbe, Munich, 1997, no. 56, color illustration of another cast p. 57.
"Georg Kolbe was the leading German figure sculptor of his generation, in a vigorous, modern, simplified classical style similar to Aristide Maillol of France. Many of Kolbe's 1000 sculptures were destroyed by confiscation, bombing and melting for war purposes. His sculptures are in many museum collections in Europe, USA and Russia, among them the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm."
SIZE: 11" h x 9-1/4" w CONDITION: Very good with black finish with uneven green verdigris spots 49377-1 WAG (20,000-40,000)
