Gerhard Marcks: Cenerentola

Gerhard Marcks: Cenerentola
MARCKS, GERHARD
1889 Berlin - 1981 Burgbrohl

Title: Cenerentola.
Date: 1941 (draft).
Technique: Bronze, black-brown patinated.
Measurement: 42 x 30 x 18cm.
Notation: Artist's signet on the back of the right hip. Additionally numbered on the buttocks: I.
Foundry Mark: Beside it foundry mark: RICH BARTH BLN MARIENHOF.
Number: I.

This bronze is from an edition of 10 copies.

Provenance:
- Private Collection USA
- Bayer Inc., USA
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005)

Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013

Literature:
- Busch, Günter/Rudloff, Martina: Gerhard Marcks - Das plastische Werk. Mit einem Werkverzeichnis von Martina Rudloff, Frankfurt a.MBerlin/Vienna 1979 (2nd edition), cat. rais. no. 399, fig.
- Farbenfabriken Bayer (eds.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 156, fig.
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 107, fig.

- Cast during artist's lifetime, with harmonious patina
- Former part of the American collection inventory of the Bayer Collection
- The gravity of the material constitutes a contrast to the delicacy of the depicted "Cinderella" figure

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This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1)

Explanations to the Catalogue

Gerhard Marcks
Germany
Bauhaus
Modern Art
Sculptures
1940s
Figure / Figures
Object
Bronze