Auction 289: Modern Art | 5 June 2019
Ernst Barlach

Mask Friedrich Schult

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Auction 289
Lot 600N
Ernst Barlach
1870 Wedel – Rostock 1938
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Bronze with goldenbrown patina. (1920). Ca. 24.5 x 14 x 10 cm. One of only 3 numbered casts. With incised artist’s name and date on the reverse. With the foundry mark “H. NOACK BERLIN” on the side edge of the neck. Posthumous cast from 1951 after the plaster model made in 1920, of which no bronze casts were made during the artist’s lifetime. We are thankful to Dr. Volker Probst, Ernst Barlach Stiftung, Barlachstadt Güstrow, for the information he has kindly provided for cataloguing this lot.

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Laur II 299.
Wir danken Dr. Volker Probst, Ernst Barlach Stiftung, Güstrow, für seine freundlichen Hinweise bei der Katalogisierung dieses Werkes.
Provenienz:
Privatbesitz, USA.

Description

Posthumer Guss von 1951 nach dem 1920 entstandenen Gipsmodell, von dem zu Lebzeiten des Künstlers keine Bronzegüsse ausgeführt wurden. Friedrich Schult (1889–1978) war Zeichenlehrer in Güstrow und seit 1914 mit Barlach befreundet. In den 1950er Jahren wurde er zu Barlachs Nachlassverwalter und erstellte dessen erste Werkverzeichnisse. – Vereinzelte minimale Bereibungen, am Nasenrücken mit geringfügigen Kratzspuren, insgesamt in guter Erhaltung.

Period

Modern Art

Technique

Sculpture/Object/Multiple

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