Modern Discoveries
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Hugo Robus
Quiet Form # 2
No reserve
Lot Closed
October 4, 04:36 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sculpture from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk
Hugo Robus
1885 - 1964
Quiet Form #2
inscribed Hugo Robus and ROMAN BRONZE WORKS INC N.Y. (along the base)
bronze
height: 8 in.
height: 20.3 cm.
Forum Gallery, New York
Alexander and Sylvian Rittmaster, Woodmere, New York
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 May 1981, lot 209 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., New York, Forum Gallery, Hugo Robus, 1966, no. 9, illustration of another cast
"Sources of Depression...," Psychiatric Progress, vol. 3, issue 3, May-June 1968, p. 8, illustration of another cast
Roberta K. Tarbell, Hugo Robus (1885-1964), Washington, D.C. 1980, no. 125, fig. 112, pp. 119 and 226-27, illustration of another cast
Inspired by his 1912 trip to Paris, Hugo Robus created a series of cubist bronze depictions of the human form. Robus intended for his works to create fluid and abstract interpretations of the body.