Lot number 3167 - Auction 150
STEHENDER FRAUENAKT

WILLI SCHMIDT-PETIT 1881 Berlin - 1958 ibid STANDING FEMALE NUDE Marble, fully sculpted with rock-like pedestal. H. 52, W. 18, D. 17 cm. Expressive nude depiction of a standing woman burying her face in her arm, creating an attitude of withdrawal and melancholy. The marble figure is depicted in a photograph of Willi Schmidt-Petit's studio. Min. bumped. Literature: Exhibition catalog: Art exhibition at the Kunstamt Treptow "Malerei Graphik Plastik," 1946, no. 62. Provenance: Private collection, southern Germany - From the family estate of sculptor Willi Schmidt-Petit.