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Description: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

1870-1938
RUSSISCHE BETTLERIN II (RUSSIAN BEGGAR-WOMAN II)

length: 43cm., 17in.

Conceived in 1907 and cast in bronze in the artist's lifetime.

inscribed E. Barlach and stamped with the foundry mark H. Noack Berlin Friedenau

bronze

PROVENANCE

Estate of the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1948

LITERATURE

Ernst Barlach, Ein selbsterzähltes Leben, Munich, 1948, no. 9, illustration of the plaster
Friedrich Scult, Ernst Barlach, Das Plastiche Werk, Hamburg, 1960, no. 71, illustration of another cast p. 65
Carl Dietrich Carls, Ernst Barlach, London, 1969, illustration of another cast p. 35
Anita Beloubek-Hammer, Ernst Barlach, Plastiche Meisterwerke, Leipzig, 1996, illustration in colour of another cast p. 27
Elisabeth Laur, Ernst Barlach - Das plastische Werk, Güstrow, 2006, no. 517