Lot 323: Ernesto de Fiori (1884-1945)

Ernesto de Fiori (1884-1945)
Frauenkopf
signed and dated 'E.d.F.30' (on the right side of the neck); stamped with the foundry mark 'H.NOACK BERLIN FRIEDENAU' (on the left side)
bronze with golden patina
Height of head: 13½ in. (34.2 cm.)
Height overall: 21½ in. (54.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1930

F.C. Brader, 'Meisterwerke im Verborgenen. Die Sammlung Otto Krebs', in A. Pophanken & F. Billeter (eds.), Die Moderne und ihre Sammler. Französische Kunst in deutschen Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Passagen - Deutsches Forum zur Kunstgesichte, vol. III, Berlin, 2001, p. 309, note 74.

Otto Krebs, Mannheim and Gut Holzdorf near Weimar, and by descent.
Nationalised as part of the land reform under the Soviet Military Administration in Thuringia after 8 May 1945.
Transferred as state property by the Staatliche Kunstkommission (Ministerium des Innern) to the administration of the Nationalgalerie Berlin (East) in 1952 1988.
Property of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin from 1990 until restituted to the Stiftung für Krebs - und Scharlachforschung on 30 April 2008.

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