Cupido und Kranich. 1923 /24.
Bronze , with golden and dark brown patina.
Inscribed and dated "C. P. Jennewein © 1931" on top of the base. Total height: 55.5 cm (21.8 in). Base: 27 x 13,2 cm ( 10,6 x 5,1 in).
Cast in 1931 by Priessmann Bauer & Co, Munich (with foundry mark on right side of base). [FS].
One of just four copies with the completed golden-brown patina offered on the art market over the last eightenn years (source: artnet, as of June 19, 2018).

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: Shirley Reiff Howarth, C. Paul Jennewein Sculptor, The Tampa Museum, Tampa, Florida, 1980, p. 20, 81; illu. p. 23, no. 31 and p. 81, no. 141 (presumably different copy).
Janis C. Conner, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture. Studio works 1893-1939, Austin 1989, p. illu. in p. 83 (presumably different copy).
R. Salmon, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, volBd. II, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, 1993, S. 60 f. (presumably different copy).