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121 - August Gaul
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August Gaul Spielende Bären (Zwei spielende junge Bären) 1899 Bronze. Height 20.7cm, width 27.3 cm, depth 13.5 cm. Mounted on marble base (4 x 26.6 x 13.7 cm). Signed and dated 'A. Gaul 1900' on the plinth. Incised inscription "GUSS H.NOACK FRIEDENAU" on the side on the plinth edge. Early lifetime case with a flat plinth; later casts have a higher plinth. Between 1903 and 1911, 14 purchases and 11 sales are recorded at the Cassirer Gallery. - With a beautiful, golden-brown patina. — In very good condition. A few minimal surface scuffs and tiny spots. One corner of the marble base has a shallow chip. Gabler 56 Provenance Private ownership, North Germany Exhibitions Cf. i.a. Berlin 1900 (2. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession), cat. with ill.; Berlin 1900 (Galerie Cassirer), 4. Ausstellung; Bremen 1904 (Deutsche Kunstausstellung); Vienna 1905 (Wiener Sezession); Berlin 1915 (Galerie Cassirer), Sommerausstellung; Berlin 1919 (Galerie Cassirer), August Gaul, no. 12; Berlin 1972 (Berlin Museum), August Gaul, Plastik, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, cat. p. 19 with ill.; Berlin/Hamburg/Hanau 1999 (Georg-Kolbe-Museum/Ernst Barlach Haus/Museen der Stadt Hanau), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul; Frankfurt a.M. 2010 (Museum Giersch), Die Bildhauer August Gaul und Fritz Klimsch, cat. no. 11 with col.ill. p. 59-60 Literature Cf. i.a. Hans Rosenhagen, Bildwerke von August Gaul, Berlin 1905, ill. p. 27; Angelo Walther, August Gaul, Leipzig 1973, ill. p. 36; Ursel Berger (ed.), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, Berlin 1999, cat. no. 15 with col. ill. p. 91
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