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Lot 3240 - A187 Art Impressionniste & Moderne - vendredi, 07. décembre 2018, 16h00

FRITZ WOTRUBA

(1907 Vienna 1975)
Liegende (Das Lied von der Erde), (Lying woman (the Song of the earth)). 1936.
Bronze, brown-black patina. Cast from 1945.
Signed back left: Wotruba. With the foundry mark on the backside: K.STUTZ / KUNSTGIESSEREI/ZÜRICH.
58 x 35 x 19.5 cm.


The bronze is a design for a monument to Gustav Mahler.

With a confirmation ("Urkunde") by Fritz Wotruba, 11 December 1945: "(...) The figure is an original first cast and I undertake, if ever, to let found only one unsaleable cast more for my possession only "(...)"(translated from German).

Provenance: Collection Dr. Hans Landis, Zug, bought directly from the artist and by descent to the present owners.

Literatur: Breicha, Otto (ed.): Fritz Wotruba: Werkverzeichnis. Skulpturen, Reliefs, Bühnen- und Architekturmodelle, St. Gallen 2002, no. 72 (with ill. of the plaster).

CHF 10 000 / 15 000 | (€ 10 310 / 15 460)

Vendu pour CHF 18 500 (frais inclus)
Aucune responsabilité n'est prise quant à l´exactitude de ces informations.