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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, PHILADELPHIA

1888-1949
ABSTRAKTE FIGUR (ABSTRACT FIGURE)

measurements
height: 41 3/4 in.

alternate measurements
106 cm

This work was concieved in 1921-23 and cast in an edition of 11 in 1961 by Noack, Berlin. The edition is numbered: 1/7 to 7/7; A/C to C/C and 1A/7. The present sculpture is 1A/7.

Nickel-plated bronze and steel

PROVENANCE

Frau Tut Schlemmer (the artist's widow)
B. C. Holland, Inc., Chicago (acquired from the above on November 25, 1969)
Acquired from the above by the present owner on January 20, 1969

EXHIBITED

Manheim, Städtische Kunsthalle Manheim, Oskar Schlemmer, 1967, no. 69
New York, Spencer A. Samuels & Company, Ltd., Oskar Schlemmer Paintings and Sculpture, 1969
New York, Blum Helman Gallery Inc., 1969 (on loan)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loans, June-July 1970

LITERATURE

Hans Hildebrandt, Oskar Schlemmer Werkverzeichnis, Munich, 1952, illustration of another cast p. 118
Herbert Read, Concise History of Modern Sculpture, London, 1964, illustration of another cast p. 122
René Huyghe, Art and Mankind, Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art, London, 1967, illustration of another cast p. 375
Rosamond Bernier, L'Oeil Magazine, Paris, June-July 1968, illustration of another cast p. 17
Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture, New York, 1969, illustration of another cast p. 214
A. A. Arnason, History of Modern Art, New York, 1969, illustration of another cast p. 507
Karin Maur, Oskar Schlemmer Oeuvrekatalog, Munich, 1979, illustration of another cast no. P13a