Auguste Rodin, French, b. Paris, 1840–1917 Search this
Medium:
Bronze
Dimensions:
12 1/4 x 11 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (31.1 x 28.2 x 19.7 cm)
Type:
Sculpture
Date:
(1880-1882/cast by 1953)
Provenance:
Fine Arts Associates, New York, to 9 April 1957
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 9 April 1957-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History:
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 36. TOUR: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 390, ill. p. 22.
OKLAHOMA MUSEUM OF ART, Oklahoma City. "Sculptures from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 9 August 1984-9 August 1985, no cat.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, SHIGA, Otsu, Japan. "The Human Figure Interpreted: Modern Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum," 1 July-6 August 1995, no. 11, ill. p. 58. TOUR: ODAKYU MUSEUM, Tokyo, 9 August-27 August; IWAKI CITY ART MUSEUM, 23 September-5 November; TAKAMATSU CITY MUSEUM OF ART, 10 November-10 December.
Published References:
SCHWARTZ, MARVIN D. "News and Views from New York," Apollo 70 (September 1959), p. 61, ill. 1.
UNSIGNED. Milwaukee Sentinel (27 September 1959), p. D-5.
UNSIGNED. The Art Gallery of Toronto News and Notes 4 (October 1960), p. 2.
ARNASON, H. HARVARD. History of Modern Art (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968), no. 78, p. 61.
TANCOCK, JOHN. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin (Philadelphia: Museum of Art, 1976), no. 6-4, pp. 138, 139, and see other casts, p. 140.
RATHER, SUSAN. Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, 1993), fig. 2, p. 11.
See file for further info.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
