Sleeping Soldier

1943

Gerhard Marcks, Artist Richard Barth, Foundry

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About the Artwork

Title Sleeping Soldier

Artwork Date 1943

Makers Gerhard Marcks (Artist) German, 1889-1981 (Foundry) Richard Barth

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Including base: 10 1/2 × 7 5/8 × 7 3/4 inches (26.7 × 19.4 × 19.7 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of John S. Newberry

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 65.260

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Signed Signed on left hip with monogram (see Registrar's file for reproduction of monogram).

Marks On right hip: Rich. Barth III bln Mariendorf.

Provenance

Curt Valentin, (New York, New York, USA);
by 1947, John S. Newberry Jr. (Romeo, Michigan, USA);
1965-present, bequeathed to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Cranbrook Academy of Art Galleries, Bloomfield Hills, THE COLLECTION OF JOHN S. NEWBERRY, 1947.

New York Curt Valentin, CLOSING EXHIBITION: SCULPTURE, PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, June 8, 1955, cat. no. 106, not il.

Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, WATERCOLORS, ETC. FROM COLLECTIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1933, 1958, no 51, p 10.

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, ARTIST AND MAECENAS- TRIBUTE TO CURT VALENTINE, 1963, no 69.

DIA, THE JOHN S. NEWBERRY COLLECTION, Oct 13-Nov 14, 1965, p 63 (ill).

Busch, Gunter and Martina Rudloff, GERHARD MARCKS: DAS PLASTISCHE WERK (Frankfurt-am-Main and Vienna, 1977), cat no. 426 III

DIA Statewide Services Traveling Exhibition, GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST SCULPTURE FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, May 27, 1986 - Mar 1, 1987.

Busch, Gunter and Martina Rudloff, GERHARD MARCKS: DAS PLASTISCHE WERK (Frankfurt-am-Main and Vienna, 1977), cat. no 426, III

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