Arno Breker (1900 - 1991), a portrait head of Alfred Cortots Plasture, coated with grey colour, no signature, mounted on a custom wood base. Height 40 cm. Arno Breker modelled the head of his friend in 1942/43 in the Great National Art Studio at the Käuzchensteig, Berlin. It is probably the sketch for a later bronze version. Provenance: Etude Maitre Marc-Arthur Kohn, Paris, auction of 3 Oct. 1998, lot 107. Alfred Cortot (1877 - 1962), famous French piano virtuoso and cultural politician. Inspite of his Jewish wife, Cortot was an admirer of Nazi Germany and beca,
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