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Ecstatic Woman

Ernst Barlach, Artist H. Noack, Foundry
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About the Artwork

Ecstatic Woman

modeled c. 1920, cast 1930

Ernst Barlach (Artist) German, 1870-1938 H. Noack (Foundry)

Bronze

14 3/4 × 9 1/2 × 6 5/8 inches (37.5 × 24.1 × 16.8 cm)

Sculpture

European Modern Art to 1970

Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

70.211

Public Domain

Markings

Right side: E. Barlach; left side of the base: E. Barlach

Stamped on back at left: H.Noack/ Berlin Friedenau, 1/10.

Provenance

(Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin and Dusseldorf, Germany);
By 1937 (E. Weyhe, New York, USA);
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1970-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, MASTER BRONZES February 1937, cat. no. 166, il (as DIE KUPPLERIN)

Detroit, DIA, ORIGINS OF MODERN SCULPTURE, 22 January - 3 march 1946, p. 7 (as SCREAMING WOMAN)

St. Louis Museum of Art, ORIGINS OF MODERN SCULPTURE, 30 March - 1 May 1946, no 76 (as THE PROCURESS)

Schult, Friedrich, ERNST BARLACH: DAS PLASTISCHES WERK, vol I (Hamburg, 1960), cat. 122, p. 133 (ill.).

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 121, 130, 141 (ill.).

Bostick, W. A., ROBERT HUDSON TANNAHILL MEMORIAL EXHIBIT, Grosse Pointe War Memorial, Sept 7-18, 1978, no 24.

Uhr, H., MASTERPIECES OF GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, NY: Hudson Hills Press in association with the DIA, 1982, p 34 (ill).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Ernst Barlach; H. Noack, Ecstatic Woman, modeled c. 1920, cast 1930, Bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.211.

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