Sale: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection, Dec. 10. 2022 in Munich Lot 447

 

447
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Kleine Sinnende, 1910/11.
Bronze with dark brown patina
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Sold:
€ 87,500 / $ 94,500

(incl. surcharge)
Kleine Sinnende. 1910/11.
Bronze with dark brown patina.
Schubert 55 B b I (of C b). With the name "W. Lehmbruck" on front right of stand. With the foundry mark "H. Noack Berlin-Friedenau" on the reverse. 53 x 15 x 15 cm (20.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 in).
Cast by Noack, Berlin-Friedenau, on behalf of the widow in the 1920s or 1930s. [KT].
• The "Kleine Sinnende", along with the "Knienden" and the "Gestürzten", is one of Lehmbruck's most famous sculptures.
• Main work of early expressionist sculpting.
• In 1910 Lehmbruck settled in Paris where a new stylistic period would begin.
• A first copy was presented at the Paris Salon d'Automne in 1911
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We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schubert, Heidelberg University, for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Bavaria.

The "Kleine Sinnende", which, along with the "Kniende" and the "Gestürzte", is one of Lehmbruck's best-known sculptures. It was Lehmbruck's first sculpture created under the new artistic influences after his relocation to Paris in 1910, where Lehmbruck would attain his own style. Initially still carefully exploring space, the curved lines of Art Nouveau already reveal later expressionist expressiveness. In its primary understanding, his sculpture is characterized by a physicality that lives from the statuary volume. Shortly after his move to Paris and the creation of the "Kleine Sinnende" Lehmbruck also showed works at the avant-garde Salon d'Automne. He sent works to exhibitions in Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf, as well as to the first New York Armory Show. In 1914, Galerie Paul Levesque in Paris dedicated a first solo exhibition to the promising young artist. Influenced by, on the one hand, Rodin's vitalism, and, on the other hand, by Maillol's formally reduced and condensed oeuvre, Lehmbruck attained his own formal language, at the center of which we fimd the human body. From then on, pursuing a certain typification of human physiognomy and anatomy, Lehmbruck not only reduced the human body to a mere formal device, but made it a soulful carrier of expression that always stands for the human individual and its state of mind. [KT]



447
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Kleine Sinnende, 1910/11.
Bronze with dark brown patina
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Sold:
€ 87,500 / $ 94,500

(incl. surcharge)