Abschiedwinkende Soldatenfrauen II

Details

Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
Abschiedwinkende Soldatenfrauen II
signed 'Kollwitz' (on the back); stamped with foundry mark 'H. NOACK BERLIN' (on the left side)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 12 1/8 in. (31.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1937-1938

Provenance

Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, May 1974.

Literature

A. Seeler, Käthe Kollwitz: Die Plastik, Werkverzeichnis Onlinekatalog, Cologne, 2016, pp. 134-142, no. 32 (another cast illustrated, p. 134).

Exhibited

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Inc., Barlach/Kollwitz, September-October 1968, no. 64 (illustrated).

Sale Room Notice

Dr. Annette Seeler, Berlin, author of the recently published catalogue raisonné of Kollwitz' sculptures, has confirmed from photographs and other significant material that this bronze is an authorized posthumous cast.

Please note the amended provenance and additional exhibition history for this work which can be accessed online.

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