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Artist or Maker: Ernst Barlach (1870-1938)

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Description: Der singende Mann
signed 'E.Barlach' and stamped with the foundry mark 'H.Noack Berlin Friedenau' (on the side)
bronze with a light gold patina
Height: 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1928 and cast in the artist's lifetime

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Provenance: A gift from the artist to the grandfather of the present owners.

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Published: C. D. Carls, Barlach. Das plastische, graphische und dichterische Werk, Berlin, 1931, (another cast illustrated fig. 49).
A. H. Barr, 'Omnibus', in German Sculpture, Berlin & Dusseldorf, 1932, pp. 38-42 (another cast illustrated fig. 53).
M. Devigne, 'Les Beaux-Arts', in Ernst Barlach, Brussels, 1935, p. 14 (another cast illustrated; titled Femme chantant).
E. Barlach, Ein Selbsterzähltes Leben, Munich, 1948 (another cast illustrated pl. 69).
F. Schult, Ernst Barlach, Potsdam, 1950 (another cast illustrated pl. 40).
W. Gielow, Ernst Barlach. Katalog der Plastik, Munich, 1954, no. 252 b (another cast illustrated).
P. Fechter, Ernst Barlach, Gütersloh, 1957 (another cast illustrated pl. 35).
W. Stubbe & F. Hewicker, Ernst Barlach Plastik, Munich, 1959 (another cast illustrated pl. 68-9).
F. Schult, Ernst Barlach. Das Plastische Werk, Hamburg, 1960, no. 343 (another cast illustrated p. 191).
C. Carls, Ernst Barlach. Das plastische, graphische und dichterische Werk, Berlin, 1968, no. 88 (another cast illustrated).
R. Löwit, Ernst Barlach. Das Wirkliche und Wahrhaftige, Wiesbaden, 1970 (another cast illustrated on the front cover and p. 159).
E. A. Seemann, Ernst Barlach. Plastische Meisterwerke, Leipzig, 1996, p. 116 (another cast illustrated in colour on the cover and p. 117).

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