Georg Kolbe (1877-1947)
Kniende
signed with monogram (on the bottom of the left foot); stamped with foundry mark 'H.NOACK BERLIN' (on the ball of the left foot)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 21 1/8 in. (53.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1926
Provenance
Estate of the artist. Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles. Nanette Fabray, Los Angeles. Weintraub Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, January 1980.
Literature
R.G. Binding, Georg Kolbe, Berlin, 1933, p. 12 (another cast illustrated). U. Berger, Georg Kolbe, Leben und Werk, Berlin, 1990, pp. 290-291, no. 87 (another cast illustrated, p. 289).