CONSTANT PERMEKE (BELGIAN 1886-1952)
Parrot
carved and stained wood
dimensions: 24 x 43 x 13 cm (9 1/2 x 16 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.) [with the base]
signed on the side

PROVENANCE
Erich Cohn Collection
Thence by descent in the family to the present owner

LOT NOTES
The present lot comes from the estate of Erich Cohn, a prolific patron and collector of German expressionism. Born in 1890 in Filehne (Wielen, present-day Poland), Mr. Cohn emigrated to the United States before the outbreak of the Second World War, where in 1937 he became president of the noodle and matzah manufactory A. Goodman & Sons. Art from the Erich Cohn Collection, especially by Kleinschmidt, Grosz, and Kollwitz, is held at the MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Harvard Art Museums and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The collection also included several artworks by Polish-Jewish modernist Leopold Gottlieb.

CONDITION
The sculpture is in good condition, one long crack on the back of the parrot, can be detached form the base.
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