MARCKS, GERHARD
1889 Berlin - 1981 Burgbrohl

Title: Alcina I.
Date: 1934 (draft).
Technique: Bronze, brown-patinated.
Measurement: 110 x 39 x 24cm.
Notation: Artist's signet at the back of the hem. Here additionally inscribed: 1.
Foundry Mark: Beside it foundry mark H. NOACK BERLIN FRIEDENAU.

This bronze is one of two copies of the frist edition.

Provenance:
- Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York
- Collection Morton D. Day, Saint Louis
- Collection Laura Bramlette, Houston
- Privatsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Literature:
- Busch, Günter/Rudloff, Martina: Gerhard Marcks - Das plastische Werk. Mit einem Werkverzeichnis von Martina Rudloff, Frankfurt a.M./Berlin/Vienna 1979 (2nd ed.), cat. rais. no. 290, ill.

- Titled after an opera by Georg Friedrich Händel, which connects the artist and the model
-The model for the sculpture was Trude Jalowetz, whom Marcks met during his time in Halle/Saale
- All-round exciting sculpture with fine details and contours and a strong spatial presence.