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Rudolf Belling
Bildnis Alfred Flechtheim, 1927.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,400 Sold:
€ 58,050 / $ 67,338 (incl. surcharge)
Rudolf Belling
1886 - 1972
Bildnis Alfred Flechtheim. 1927.
Bronze with brown patina.
With the date and the signature on the side of the plinth. One of to date 25 known copies. 18 x 12.5 x 11.7 cm (7 x 4.9 x 4.6 in). [AW].
• Masterfully exaggerated, yet reduced sculpture of the Berlin art dealer Alfred Flechtheim.
• Cubist-expressive sculpture in which Rudolf Belling impressively combines space and form.
• During National Socialism, his art was defamed as “degenerate,” forcing him to emigrate to Turkey.
• Other copies of this bronze are in, among others, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired from the artist in the 1960s).
LITERATURE: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer (publisher), Helga D. Hofmann (ed.), Rudolf Belling. Werkverzeichnis. Das plastische Werk, Munich 1967, CR no. 48 (illustrated in black and white on p. 49, different copy).
1886 - 1972
Bildnis Alfred Flechtheim. 1927.
Bronze with brown patina.
With the date and the signature on the side of the plinth. One of to date 25 known copies. 18 x 12.5 x 11.7 cm (7 x 4.9 x 4.6 in). [AW].
• Masterfully exaggerated, yet reduced sculpture of the Berlin art dealer Alfred Flechtheim.
• Cubist-expressive sculpture in which Rudolf Belling impressively combines space and form.
• During National Socialism, his art was defamed as “degenerate,” forcing him to emigrate to Turkey.
• Other copies of this bronze are in, among others, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired from the artist in the 1960s).
LITERATURE: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer (publisher), Helga D. Hofmann (ed.), Rudolf Belling. Werkverzeichnis. Das plastische Werk, Munich 1967, CR no. 48 (illustrated in black and white on p. 49, different copy).
143
Rudolf Belling
Bildnis Alfred Flechtheim, 1927.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,400 Sold:
€ 58,050 / $ 67,338 (incl. surcharge)
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