Kleines, sich kratzendes Fohlen. 1918.
Bronze with black-brown patina.
Berger/Ladwig 34. Buhlmann 127. With the monogram on the right hindleg. Ca. 7.2 x 8 x 3 cm (2.8 x 3.1 x 1.1 in). [JS].

• Renée Sintenis is among the most important modernist sculptors.
• In the 1920s, the artist. who embodied the image of the modern woman in a very special manner, was among the key figures of the Berlin art world and was represented by the renowned Galerie Alfred Flechtheim.
• Animal sculptures are her artistic trademark.
• Sintenis created the Berlin Bear (1956)
• Other copies are at the Knauf Collection, Berlin, the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt a. Main, and the Baverian State Painting Collection, Munich.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: (selection, each presumably different copy)
Marie Laurencin - Renée Sintenis, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin May 22 - June 19, 1925, cat. no. 16.
Renée Sintenis. Plastik, Graphik, Handzeichnungen, Städtisches Museum Mülheim/Ruhr, June 30 - July 29, 1962, no. 3 in cat. of sculptures.

LITERATURE: (selection, each presumably different copy)
René Crevel/Georg Biermann, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1930, fig. no. 16.
Gustav Eugen Diehl (ed.), Renée Sintenis, Berlin no date (publications of Kunstarchiv no. 27-28, vol. 3), cat no. 16.
Renée Sintenis, quoted from: Zwischen Freiheit und Moderne. Die Bildhauerin Renée Sintenis, ex.cat. Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg 2019/2020, p. 44.

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