Lot 162: w - OSKAR GARVENS GERMAN, 1874-1951

DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA UPON HIS HORSE ROCINANTE

measurements note
46 by 28.3cm., 18 by 11 1/8 in.

signed: OSK GARVENS and inscribed: AKT-GES: vorm: H. GLADENBECK BERLIN.

bronze, two-tone, dark and light brown patina, on black veined marble base

NOTE

Garvens is chiefly remembered as a political satirist and illustrator for the magazine Kladderadatsch during the 1920's but prior to the First World War he was a sculptor who exhibited in Berlin in 1909. The angular features in the present depiction of Don Quixote are also typical of his graphic ~uvre.

RELATED LITERATURE
Bénézit, vol.5, p.887