About the Artwork
Standing Armless Figure
c. 1930
Georg Kolbe
1877-1947
German
Unknown
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12 1/2 x 2 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. 31.8 x 7.0 x 8.9 cm
Sculpture
European Modern Art to 1970
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.214
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Markings
Signed on base at back with monogram (see Registrar's file for reproduction of the monogram).
Provenance
New York Buchholz Gallery, 1942 (?)
Detroit, Collection Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, by whom given to Robert H. Tannahill
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, Collection Robert H. Tannahill 2004 added to TMS package for provenance questions
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Berger, Ursel, GEORG KOLBE: LEBEN UND WERK, MIT DEM KATALOG DER KOLBE-PLASTIKEN IM GEORG-KOLBE-MUSEUM (Berlin, 1990), related work and discussion, cat. no 33 pp 239-241, il, asTORSO THERAPIA, with DIA version cited
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), HOMMAGE TO RODIN: EUROPEAN SCULPTURE OF OUR TIME, 10 November - 5 December 1942, cat. no. 32, as STANDING GIRL
The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 121, 130, 143 (ill.).
DIA Statewide Services Traveling Exhibition, GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST SCULPTURE FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, May 27, 1986 - Mar 1, 1987.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Georg Kolbe, Standing Armless Figure, c. 1930. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.214.
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