Barlach, Ernst (Wedel 1870 - 1938 Rostock) Lot n° 56205

Barlach, Ernst (Wedel 1870 - 1938 Rostock)Figure "The Book Reader" (Reading Man in the Wind), bronze cast and dark brown patinated, signed lower right "E. Barlach", on the reverse just above the stand single-line foundry stamp "H. NOACK BERLIN", H 44.5 cm, weight 26.2 kg., designed in 1936, good posthumous casting with careful and differentiated surface, good original condition with minor signs of age, patina on the elevations partly minimally rubbed, mold residues inside, unsocket 4305 Probably one of the 31 examples cast after 1939 at Hermann Noack in Berlin Lit.: Elisabeth Laur 2006, Ernst Barlach, Werkverzeichnis II - Das plastische Werk, No. 600 Prov.: Acquired in the 1990s in Hamburg, private collection East Westphalia.