Geneigter Frauenkopf

细节

Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919)
Geneigter Frauenkopf
with the artist's signature 'W. LEHMBRUCK' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
18½in. (47cm.) high
Conceived in 1911 and probably cast before 1919

来源

R. N. Ketterer, Campione d'Italia, Switzerland, from whom acquired by Norton Simon in July 1968, and thence by descent.

出版

P. Westheim, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Berlin, 1919 (the stone version illustrated pl. 31).
A. Hoff, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Berlin, 1936, p. 35 (another cast illustrated).
R. N. Ketterer, Moderne Kunst V, Lugano, 1968, no. 107, p. 132 (illustrated p. 133).
R. Heller, The Art of Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Washington, 1972, no. 23, p. 43 (another cast illustrated).
D. Schubert, Die Kunst Lehmbrucks, Worms, 1981, p. 154.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

Geneigter Frauenkopf is derived from Lehmbruck's celebrated sculpture Knieende, which he conceived in Paris in 1911. A version was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne.

Another Valsuani cast of this work, formerly in the Artist's estate, is now housed in the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg.