Bronze with brown patina, on wooden base. With the signature and the foundry stamp “Bronze Stransky” on the reverse. From an edition of 8 casts. 27.5 x 12.5 x 8.5 cm.
Posthumous cast by the Stransky bronze foundry, Nörvenich. [AR].
- Graceful, incredibly intimate and seemingly inseparable pair of figures by one of the great German sculptors of the 20th century. - She began her sculpting career even before Käthe Kollwitz, Emy Roeder and Renée Sintenis and was a student of Henri Matisse in Paris. - In 1928, she visited the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi in his Paris studio, an encounter that had a lasting impact on her work. - Reference to Brâncusi's famous “Kiss” from 1907/08 is evident in “Lovers”, but with the soft, flowing lines, the artist found her very own artistic expression and an independent formal language. - To date, only one other copy of this bronze has been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com) - After a stop at the Museum Wiesbaden - Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur, the Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm currently presents the acclaimed exhibition "Gemischtes Doppel. Die Molls und die Purrmanns - Zwei Künstlerpaare der Moderne (April 26 - August 18, 2024).
LITERATURE: Werner Filmer, Marg Moll. Eine deutsche Bildhauerin 1884-1977, Munich 2017, illu. on p. 66.
