Sale: 432 / Modern Art I, June 11. 2016 in Munich Lot 328

 

328
Hermann Blumenthal
Männlicher Torso stehend auf ovaler Platte, 1928/29.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,120
Sold:
€ 16,250 / $ 17,550

(incl. surcharge)
Männlicher Torso stehend auf ovaler Platte. 1928/29.
Bronze with dark brown patina.
Isermeyer F 18. Plinth with dated monogram "Bl 28". Verso with the foundry stamp "Richard Barth, Berlin-Mariendorf". One of presumably 15 casts. Height: 93.8 cm (36.9 in).
This bronze, cast around 1954, presumably is the first cast after the plaster cast from 1928/9.

Accompanied by an expertise issued by Dr. Agnes Scherling on 14 June 2013.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Hermann Blumenthal, Gerhards Marcks, Alexander Zschokke, Kunsthalle Basel, 1956, no. 3877 (with exhibition label on underside).
Hermann Blumenthal, Freie Künstlergemeinschaft Schanze in Münster, Städtisches Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1966, no.15.




328
Hermann Blumenthal
Männlicher Torso stehend auf ovaler Platte, 1928/29.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,120
Sold:
€ 16,250 / $ 17,550

(incl. surcharge)