Georg Kolbe: Sculpture 'Crouching Japanese Woman', reduction in bronze
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Product information "Georg Kolbe: Sculpture 'Crouching Japanese Woman', reduction in bronze"
Grace and naturalness: Georg Kolbe's 'Crouching Japanese Woman'. ars mundi exclusive edition, published in co-operation with the Kunsthalle Bremen. The 'Japanese Woman' - a dancer and daughter of a Berlin woman and a Japanese man modelled for Kolbe - a young, self-confident woman in a completely unacademically executed naturalism. Sculpture in fine bronze, patinated. Cast by hand using the lost wax technique. Moulded directly from the original and reduced in size (reduction). Limited edition of 980 copies, individually numbered and bearing the signature and foundry mark taken from the original. ars mundi exclusive edition, published in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Bremen. With numbered certificate of authenticity and limitation. Size 26 x 13 x 12 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 3.8 kg. 'The sculpture of the 'Kauernde Japanerin' by Kolbe demonstrates the artist's great powers of observation and his ability to express inner calm and contemplation. The pose of the young Japanese woman is borrowed from a popular Hellenistic work depicting the crouching Aphrodite of Doidalsas (3rd century BC). Kolbe transforms the intimate motif of the goddess kneeling in the bath into a delicate gesture of submerged realisation of individual existence. (Prof. Dr Christoph Grunenberg, Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen)
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