Bronze, golden brown patina. Height: 80 cm. 16.6 kg.

Early bronze cast from the late 1920s, one of 15 casts during the artist's lifetime. Model year: 1923, monogrammed on the reverse, foundry mark: H. Noack Berlin. The current verifiable edition is 25 (15 casts from 1924-1930, 10 posthumous casts from 1946 to 2003). The name "Adagio" - derived from the musical tempo marking - indicates a calm arrangement, although the hard drapery of the cubically broken garment creates a field of tension with this basic mood.

* We would like to thank Mr. Thomas Pavel, research assistant for the Georg Kolbe catalog raisonné, Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin, who inspected the original bronze sculpture and compared it with the bronze and the plaster model from the museum, for his help * Kolbe, sculptor, painter, draughtsman, studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden and at the Academy in Munich. 1898-1901 with Louis Tuaillon in Rome, based in Berlin from 1904. 1905 member and from 1911 board member of the Berlin Secession. 1914 change to the Berlin Free Secession, 1919-1921 its president, 1918 titular professor, 1919 member of the Prussian Academy, works in various German and international museums. All lots with a limit (starting price) of at least €2,000 are checked against the Art Loss Register database.

Literature : De Gruyter (2014), Thieme-Becker (1927).

Provenance : * Partner auction Bergmann (the responsibility for legally compliant consignment and description lies with Auktionshaus Bergmann, Erlangen). Collection Kurt Adelsberger, part 3.

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