Sleeping Soldier, 1943

  • Richard Barth
  • Gerhard Marcks, German, 1889-1981

Bronze

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

Bequest of John S. Newberry

65.260

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

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

On right hip: Rich. Barth III bln Mariendorf.

New York, Collection Curt Valentin

Detroit, Collection John S. Newberry by 1947

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

Gerhard Marcks; Richard Barth, Sleeping Soldier, 1943, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.260.