Sale: 512 / Modern Art II, Dec. 12. 2020 in Munich Lot 447

 

447
Renée Sintenis
Kleine Daphne, 1917/18.
Bronze with red-brown patina. On marble base
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,720
Sold:
€ 46,250 / $ 49,950

(incl. surcharge)
Kleine Daphne. 1917/18.
Bronze with red-brown patina. On marble base.
Buhlmann 63. Berger/Ladwig 030. With stamped monogram and the foundry mark "Noack Berlin" on the right side of the base. 28.7 cm (11.2 in). Total dimensions: 34,7 x 6,3 x 6,3 cm (13,6 x 2,5 x 2,5 in).
Cast by art foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin-Friedenau. [KT].
• The "Daphne" is the artist's best-known exploration of the female body and an expression of her aspirations for female emancipation.
• Graceful interpretation of the traditional motif in a rhythmic and airy line management characteristic of Sintenis.
- More copies of the "Little Daphne" can be found in renownwd public collections like the Nationalgalerie Berlin and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection California.
Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: R. Crevel/G. Biermann, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1930, p. 22 (with illu.).
Wolfgang Stechow, Apollo und Daphne, Leipzig/Berlin 1932, illu. 63.
Hanna Kiel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1935, S. 18 (with illu.).
Hanna Kiel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1956, S. 16 (with illu.).
C. L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art: The Harvard Collections, Cambridge 1957, p. 71, illu. 116.
H. Westhoff-Krummacher, Die Bildwerke seit 1800 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und im öffentlichen Besitz der Stadt Köln, Cologne 1965, p. 243 (with illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, auction 444/I on June 5, 2013, lot 79 (with color illu., this copy).
Zwischen Freiheit und Moderne. Die Bildhauerin Renée Sintenis, ex. cat. Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Berlin 2019, pp. 32, 89-93 (with color illu.).




447
Renée Sintenis
Kleine Daphne, 1917/18.
Bronze with red-brown patina. On marble base
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,720
Sold:
€ 46,250 / $ 49,950

(incl. surcharge)