KURT EDZARD (1890 Bremen - 1972 Braunschweig) Lot n° 31

Small sleeping Plaster, gray painted, loose on wooden panel covered with fabric. 1926. Approx. 30 x 14.8 x 8.1 cm. Fragmentary monogrammed "E" at the top right of the head base, with the round stamp "Sammlung Dr. P. Lufft" on the verso of the wooden panel. Provenance: Hauswedell & Nolte Hamburg, 2001, lot 1163 Literature: Peter Lufft, Kurt Edzard, sculptures, drawings, Ptobaris, a narrative, Brunswick 1973, fig. 36, p. 47 Excellent casting with lively patina. Up to now 2 copies were known, with ours now a 3rd one joins. We thank Dr. Detlev G. Gross for the valuable information. Edzard, from 1914 to 1938 in different intervals in Paris, first takes Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol as a model, before he finds in Charles Despiau his guide. Inspired by the pure lines of Egyptian sculpture, he creates existential figures: the human body, upright, sitting or lying, still and statically constructive. To his theme he takes grace and stillness. Female figures predominate over male in his work, mostly they are girlish, determined by a delicate liveliness. Our "Little Sleeping Woman" belongs to the group of works of small sculptures created between 1919 and 1928 in Berlin and Karlsruhe. Enclosed: The monograph incl. catalog raisonné "Kurt Edzard, Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Ptobaris, eine Erzählung," by Peter Lufft, Edition Querschnitt, Braunschweig 1973.