Steigendes Pony (Pony auf der Hinterhand). 1938.
Bronze with dark brown patina.
Berger/Ladwig 163. Buhlmann 168. Plinth with the monogram and the foundry mark "H. Noack Berlin". Height: 13.7 cm (5.3 in).
Cast by art foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin. Other copies of this bronze are in possession of the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, and the Collection Knauf, Berlin. [JS].

PROVENANCE: Private collection Munich.
Private collection Southern Germany (obtained as present from the artist).

EXHIBITION: (selection; each presumably different copy)
Tiere. Philipp Harth - Gerhard Marcks und die deutsche Tierplastik im 20. Jahrhundert, Gerhard Marcks-Stiftung, Bremen August 21 - November 1, 1977, cat. no. 35.
Tierplastik im 20. Jahrhundert, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund June 27 - August 11, 1963, cat. no. 157.

LITERATURE: (selection; each presumably different copy)
Rudolf Hagelstange, Carl Georg Heise and Paul Appel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1947, illu. p. 116.
Harald Seiler (editor), Bildwerke der Gegenwart, Landesgalerie Hannover, Hanover 1967, p. 54.