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Gerhard Marcks
Mélusine I
Lot Closed
October 4, 05:57 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Gerhard Marcks
1889 - 1981
Mélusine I
stamped with the artist's monogram
bronze
height: 21 ¼ in.
54 cm.
Conceived in 1947.
We are grateful to Dr. Arie Hartog, Gerhard Marcks Haus, Bremen, for his kind support in cataloguing this lot.
Otto Gerson, New York
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1980 by the present owner
Günter Busch, Gerhard Marcks, Bildwerke in Bronze 1946-1950, Hamburg, 1951, fig. 13, p. 8, illustration of another cast
Gerhard Marcks, "Sculpture and Reflections," in The Massachusetts Review, 1961, n.p., illustration of another cast
Günter Busch & Martina Rudloff, Gerhard Marcks, Das Plastische Werk, Frankfurt, 1977, no. 494, p. 338, illustration of another cast