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Margarete Moll
Lovers, 1928.
Bronze with brown patina, on wooden base
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 10,170 Sold:
€ 25,400 / $ 28,701 (incl. surcharge)
Lovers. 1928.
Bronze with brown patina, on wooden base.
With the signature and the foundry stamp “Bronze Stransky” on the reverse. From an edition of 8 casts. 27.5 x 12.5 x 8.5 cm (10.8 x 4.9 x 3.3 in).
Posthumous cast by the Stransky bronze foundry, Nörvenich. [AR].
• Graceful, incredibly intimate and seemingly inseparable pair of figures by one of the great German sculptors of the 20th century.
• She began her sculpting career even before Käthe Kollwitz, Emy Roeder and Renée Sintenis and was a student of Henri Matisse in Paris.
• In 1928, she visited the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi in his Paris studio, an encounter that had a lasting impact on her work.
• Reference to Brâncusi's famous “Kiss” from 1907/08 is evident in “Lovers”, but with the soft, flowing lines, the artist found her very own artistic expression and an independent formal language.
• To date, only one other copy of this bronze has been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com)
• After a stop at the Museum Wiesbaden - Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur, the Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm currently presents the acclaimed exhibition "Gemischtes Doppel. Die Molls und die Purrmanns - Zwei Künstlerpaare der Moderne (April 26 – August 18, 2024).
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
EXHIBITION: Gemischtes Doppel. Die Molls und die Purrmanns - Zwei Künstlerpaare der Moderne, Museum Wiesbaden - Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur, October 12, 2023 - February 18, 2024 (illu. in color on p. 162).
LITERATURE: Werner Filmer, Marg Moll. Eine deutsche Bildhauerin 1884-1977, Munich 2017, illu. on p. 66.
Bronze with brown patina, on wooden base.
With the signature and the foundry stamp “Bronze Stransky” on the reverse. From an edition of 8 casts. 27.5 x 12.5 x 8.5 cm (10.8 x 4.9 x 3.3 in).
Posthumous cast by the Stransky bronze foundry, Nörvenich. [AR].
• Graceful, incredibly intimate and seemingly inseparable pair of figures by one of the great German sculptors of the 20th century.
• She began her sculpting career even before Käthe Kollwitz, Emy Roeder and Renée Sintenis and was a student of Henri Matisse in Paris.
• In 1928, she visited the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi in his Paris studio, an encounter that had a lasting impact on her work.
• Reference to Brâncusi's famous “Kiss” from 1907/08 is evident in “Lovers”, but with the soft, flowing lines, the artist found her very own artistic expression and an independent formal language.
• To date, only one other copy of this bronze has been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com)
• After a stop at the Museum Wiesbaden - Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur, the Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm currently presents the acclaimed exhibition "Gemischtes Doppel. Die Molls und die Purrmanns - Zwei Künstlerpaare der Moderne (April 26 – August 18, 2024).
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
EXHIBITION: Gemischtes Doppel. Die Molls und die Purrmanns - Zwei Künstlerpaare der Moderne, Museum Wiesbaden - Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur, October 12, 2023 - February 18, 2024 (illu. in color on p. 162).
LITERATURE: Werner Filmer, Marg Moll. Eine deutsche Bildhauerin 1884-1977, Munich 2017, illu. on p. 66.
469
Margarete Moll
Lovers, 1928.
Bronze with brown patina, on wooden base
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 10,170 Sold:
€ 25,400 / $ 28,701 (incl. surcharge)
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