William Wauer - Tänzer - Fine Art Auctions

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Tänzer. 1923.
Bronze with drak brown patina.
Plinth with the name. Underside inscribed "H. C.". Copy H. C. aside from the edition of 7 casts. 32 cm (12.5 in).
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• Very rare. One of only seven casts aside from the edition.
• Member of the influential Sturm Gallery of Herwarth Walden in Berlin.
• Between Expressionism and Berlin Cubism.

We are grateful to Dr. Uwe Rüth for his kind assistance.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Werner Kunze, Berlin.
Private collection, Berlin (inherited from the above in 1984).

LITERATURE: Marc Wellmann (ed.), William Wauer und der Berliner Kubismus. Die Plastischen Künste um 1920, exhibition catalogue, Cologne 2011, p. 41 (with ill., different copy).
Uwe Rüth, William Wauer. Skulpturen und Gemälde, exhibition catalogue, Basel 1979, p. 55 (with ill., different copy).

"The artistic aspect is not the imitation of flesh, but the rhythmic surface structure based on the immanent properties and laws of the material to be shaped."
William Wauer, 1925, quoted from: William Wauer, Wesen und Dinge in der bildenden Kunst, in: Der Kunstwart, 39th year, vol. 1, issue 2, 1925, pp. 101-103.

In good condition. Expressive bronze with an even, shiny patina. With small isolated stains.
For information concerning the condition, please view the high resolution image / backside image.