Lot 523
  • 523

Georg Kolbe

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Georg Kolbe
  • Badende (Bathing woman)
  • inscribed GK
  • bronze
  • height: 46.3cm., 18 1/4 in.

Provenance

Gallery Buchholz, New York
The Estate of Phylis and Erwin Kalla, United States

Exhibited

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, German Modern Sculpture, 1939

Literature

Ursel Berger, Georg Kolbe - Leben und Werk, mit dem Katalog der Kolbe-Plastiken im Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, 1990, no. 95, illustration of another cast p. 297

Condition

Attractive brown patina with bronze tones. There is some dust and plaster remnants in the crevices and a few spots of oxidisation in places, consistent with age and handling. This work is in overall good condition.
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