Sale: 554 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 08. 2024 in Munich 
Lot 124000245
Lot 124000245
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124000245
Margarete Moll
Lovers, 1928.
Bronze with brown patina, on wooden base
Estimate:
€ 9,000 - 12,000
$ 9,630 - 12,840
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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.
124000245
Margarete Moll
Lovers, 1928.
Bronze with brown patina, on wooden base
Estimate:
€ 9,000 - 12,000
$ 9,630 - 12,840
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
