BERNHARD HOETGER (1874-1949) The Pardon, model created in [1901]. Sculpture. Bronze proof with brown patina. Early twentieth-century edition cast. Signed B. HOETGER, bears the founder's stamp COLIN & Cie Paris on the base at the back. H.27 cm Bibliographyand exhibitions : - Documents sur l'art industriel au vingtième siècle: reproductions photographiques des principales œuvres des collaborateurs de la Maison moderne - Éditions de la Maison Moderne, Paris, 1901. An identical model is referenced under number 3426-1 in the catalog and reproduced on page 10, in the "Sculpture" section. - Bernhard Hoetger 1874-1949, Plastiken aus den Pariser Jahren 1900-1910 - Exhibition at the Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG from March 4 to May 14, 1977. Identical model exhibited under number 16 and reproduced in the exhibition catalog (unpaginated). - Internationale Sprachen der Kunst: Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen der Klassischen Moderne aus der Sammlung Hoh - Catalogue of the 1998 touring exhibition in Altenburg, Osnabrück, Dortmund and Nuremberg, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 1998. Identical model exhibited under number 38 and reproduced on page 109.