Lot 3266 - A201 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 01. July 2022, 05.00 PM
FRITZ WOTRUBA
(1907 Vienna 1975)
Torso. 1969.
Bronze, gold-brown patina.
Signed and numbered on the rear right corner: Wotruba 5/7.
On the interiour with the foundry mark: GUSS A. ZOTTL WIEN.
On the interiour with the foundry mark: GUSS A. ZOTTL WIEN.
H 63.4 cm.
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Provenance:
Swiss private collection, by descent to the present owners.
Literature:
- Jürg Janett: Fritz Wotruba, Werkverzeichnis, Skulpturen/Relief/Bühnen- und Architekturmodelle, St. Gallen 2002, p. 262, no. 310 (with ill. of the stone).
- Otto Breicha: Wotruba. Figur als Widerstand, Salzburg 1977, p. 175 (with ill.).
- Friedrich Heer: Fritz Wotruba, St. Gallen 1977, p. 125 (with ill. of the marble).
- Jeremy Strick: Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 114/115 (other cast).
The torso was one of the most important themes in Fritz Woruba's art, already beginning in the 1920s. Created in 1969, the bronze offered here is therefore a late work. It represents the culmination of the artistic transformation of the depiction of the human form, from a figurative to an abstract manner. Another example of this figure can be found in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Swiss private collection, by descent to the present owners.
Literature:
- Jürg Janett: Fritz Wotruba, Werkverzeichnis, Skulpturen/Relief/Bühnen- und Architekturmodelle, St. Gallen 2002, p. 262, no. 310 (with ill. of the stone).
- Otto Breicha: Wotruba. Figur als Widerstand, Salzburg 1977, p. 175 (with ill.).
- Friedrich Heer: Fritz Wotruba, St. Gallen 1977, p. 125 (with ill. of the marble).
- Jeremy Strick: Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 114/115 (other cast).
The torso was one of the most important themes in Fritz Woruba's art, already beginning in the 1920s. Created in 1969, the bronze offered here is therefore a late work. It represents the culmination of the artistic transformation of the depiction of the human form, from a figurative to an abstract manner. Another example of this figure can be found in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
CHF 30 000 / 50 000 | (€ 30 930 / 51 550)
Sold for CHF 55 200 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.