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Description: Ernst Barlach (1870-1938)
Der Zweifler
signed and numbered 'E.Barlach 4/10' (on the right leg); stamped with the foundry mark 'H. NOACK BERLIN FRIEDENAU' (on the left leg)
bronze with light brown patina
Height: 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1930; this work cast during the artist's lifetime

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Provenance: Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin & Dusseldorf (no. 13758).
Hildegard & Kurt Kirchbach, Dresden, and thence by descent to the present owners.

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Published: C.D. Carls, Ernst Barlach, Das plastische, graphische und dichterische Werk, Berlin, 1931, p. 63 (another cast illustrated).
F. Schult, Ernst Barlach. Das plastische Werk, Hamburg, 1960, no. 385 (another cast illustrated p. 210; a larger version illustrated p. p. 269).
C.D. Carls, Ernst Barlach, Das plastische, graphische und dichterische Werk, Berlin, 1969, p. 192 (the wood cast illustrated).
A. Beloubek-Hammer, Ernst Barlach. Plastische Meisterwerke, Leipzig, 1996, p. 122 (another cast illustrated p. 123).
Ernst Barlach Stiftung (ed.), Ernst Barlach, Das plastische Werk, Güstrow, 2006, no. 470 (another cast illustrated p. 222).

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium