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Michael Croissant - Bronze
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Michael Croissant
Figur, 1994
Bronze
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19
Michael Croissant
Figur, 1994
Bronze
Starting bid:
€ 9,000
Estimate:
€ 10,000 - 15,000
End: 07-15-26 15:09:00 Berlin
07-15-26 09:09:00 New York
07-15-26 06:09:00 Los Angeles (29 days, 17h:47m)

Please enter your maximum bid, it will only be used to the extent necessary to beat the next best bid.
Bid plus 34 % buyer's premium (differential taxation without separate VAT statement, sales tax certificate upon request) and droit de suite charge without VAT.
Self pick-up: free of charge,
Nonstandard size: shipping on request.


After entering your maximum bid you will be able to check your entry and you will be provided with further information. Only after a further confirmation your bid will be binding.


Michael Croissant
1928 - 2002
Figur. 1994.
Bronze, welded, mounted on a stone base.
Monogram, date, and the designation “452” in the lower left. Height: 195 cm (76.7 in). Base: 9,5 x 60 cm (3,7 x 23,6 x 9,8 in).
The work is listed under number 452 in Michael Croissant’s workbook. [EH].

• Unique piece.
• Croissant’s style is characterized by a geometrically abstract formal language.
• However, Croissant developed his abstract stelae from figuration: from his “Standing Figures” of the 1970s, based on Greek and Egyptian models.
• Other works by the artist are held, among others, by the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Appel und Fertsch, Frankfurt am Main.
Private collection, Hesse (1996, acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Michael Croissant, Galerie Appel und Fertsch, Frankfurt a. Main, 1996 (no cat.).

LITERATURE: osephine Gabler, Birk Ohnesorge, The Sculptor Michael Croissant (1928–2002). With a catalogue raisonné of the sculptures, Berlin 2003, CR no. 1104 (illustrated).

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