No.2 

Ernst Barlach
(Wedel/Holstein 1870-1938 Rostock) The women singing, 1911, light brown tinted stucco, one out of three stucco casts, height 44 cm, (PP)

Provenance: Hermann and Elisabeth Abendroth, Weimar; private collection, Germany
Exhibited: 1970 Berlin, Deutsche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin (Ost), Ernst Barlach 1870-1970, p. 26
Literature: Ernst Barlach, Werke und Werkentwürfe aus fünf Jahrzehnten, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, Akademie der Künste und Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Altes Museum, 1981, vol I: Plastik 1894-1937, p. 45, repr. on p. 46.
… and suddenly I was stunned in amazement: I saw that these women were actually singing and that they personify the singer’s bliss; that the way in which their heavy bodies, accustomed to hard work, were leaning against each other breathes a rhythm of liberating song; that all three of them simply had to have identical faces, and that they had to be three by all means - they were the acre from which gratefulness arose, they were the dark, heavy soil from whose churned-up furrows singing erupted. Barlach’s figures, whether sculpted or drawn, embody all those who are tied up and suppressed, but who are able or resolved to free themselves. Dora Wentscher: “Ernst Barlach, Bildhauer und Dichter”, in: Die Schaubühne, ed. by Siegfried Jacobsohn, 13th year (1917), No. 51, p. 587

estimate €35.000,- to €45.000,-

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