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Margarete Moll
Liegende (Liegender weiblicher Torso), 1949.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,300 Sold:
€ 24,130 / $ 27,266 (incl. surcharge)
Liegende (Liegender weiblicher Torso). 1949.
Bronze with brown patina.
With the artist's name on the reverse. From an edition of eight copies plus two épreuves d'artiste. 9.7 x 39.3 x 6.5 cm (3.8 x 15.4 x 2.5 in).
[AR].
• Reduced to the essence, the curving lines are wonderfully soft without sacrificing characteristic features.
• The wooden sculpture of "Liegende" (Reclining Figure), which served as a model, was created by the artist during her lengthy stay in England in 1949.
• Alongside Renée Sintenis, Käthe Kollwitz, and Emy Roeder, Marg Moll is considered one of the great female sculptors of the 20th century in Germany.
• Her work was most recently honored in the celebrated traveling exhibition "Gemischtes Doppel. Die Molls und die Purrmanns – Zwei Künstlerpaare der Moderne".
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Austria.
LITERATURE: Werner Filmer, Marg Moll. Eine deutsche Bildhauerin 1884-1977, Munich 2024, illustrated in color on p. 168 (different copy).
"Marg Moll's art stems from an inherent matriarchal core. It is not laden with metaphysical implications, but refers directly to the physical appearance and vivid experience of the actual form."
Siegfried Salzmann, quoted from: Werner Filmer: Marg Moll. Eine deutsche Bildhauerin. 1884-1977, Germany 2024 (3rd edition), p. 212.
Bronze with brown patina.
With the artist's name on the reverse. From an edition of eight copies plus two épreuves d'artiste. 9.7 x 39.3 x 6.5 cm (3.8 x 15.4 x 2.5 in).
[AR].
• Reduced to the essence, the curving lines are wonderfully soft without sacrificing characteristic features.
• The wooden sculpture of "Liegende" (Reclining Figure), which served as a model, was created by the artist during her lengthy stay in England in 1949.
• Alongside Renée Sintenis, Käthe Kollwitz, and Emy Roeder, Marg Moll is considered one of the great female sculptors of the 20th century in Germany.
• Her work was most recently honored in the celebrated traveling exhibition "Gemischtes Doppel. Die Molls und die Purrmanns – Zwei Künstlerpaare der Moderne".
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Austria.
LITERATURE: Werner Filmer, Marg Moll. Eine deutsche Bildhauerin 1884-1977, Munich 2024, illustrated in color on p. 168 (different copy).
"Marg Moll's art stems from an inherent matriarchal core. It is not laden with metaphysical implications, but refers directly to the physical appearance and vivid experience of the actual form."
Siegfried Salzmann, quoted from: Werner Filmer: Marg Moll. Eine deutsche Bildhauerin. 1884-1977, Germany 2024 (3rd edition), p. 212.
248
Margarete Moll
Liegende (Liegender weiblicher Torso), 1949.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,300 Sold:
€ 24,130 / $ 27,266 (incl. surcharge)
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