About the Artwork
Crouching Figure
c. 1929
Georg Kolbe (Artist) German, 1877-1947 H. Noack (Foundry)
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11 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. 28.6 x 14.6 x 14.0 cm
Sculpture
European Modern Art to 1970
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.213
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Markings
Signed with monogram on base below right leg (see Registrar's file for reproduction of monogram).
On base below right leg: II.
Stamped: made in Germany. Also stamped (on base below left leg): N Noack/ Berlin Friedenau.
Provenance
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), 1939 (?)
New York, E. Weyhe (dealer)
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, Collection Robert H. Tannahill 2004 added to TMS package for provenance question
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DIA, ARTS AND CRAFTS IN DETROIT, Nov 26, 1976-Jan 16, 1977 no 262, p 198.
DIA Statewide Services Traveling Exhibition, GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST SCULPTURE FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, May 27, 1986 - Mar 1, 1987.
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), SCULPTURE, 2-23 December 1939, cat. no 7 (as CROUCHING WOMAN)
The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 121, 130, 142 (ill.).
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Georg Kolbe; H. Noack, Crouching Figure, c. 1929. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.213.
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