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Catalog Data

Artist:
Elie Nadelman, American, b. Warsaw, Poland, 1882–1946  Search this
Medium:
Marble on sandstone base
Dimensions:
13 × 9 × 11 3/8 in. (33 × 22.9 × 28.9 cm) on artist's base 5 1/8 in. (13 cm) high
Type:
Sculpture
Date:
(c. 1909)
Provenance:
The Artist, Paris, 1911
Helena Rubinstein, New York (acquired from the Artist)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, sale 2428, 20 April 1966, Modern Paintings and Sculpture from the Helena Rubinstein Collection, no. 18, ill.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 20 April 1966-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History:
PATERSON GALLERY, London. "Nadelman," April 1911.
INTERNATIONAL GALLERY, New York. "Sculpture by Elie Nadelman from the Private Collection of Helena Rubinstein," 16 April-6 May 1932.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
WHITNEY MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, New York [organizer]. "The Sculpture and Drawings of Elie Nadelman," 23 September-30 November 1975, no. 18, ill. p. 33. Tour: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC,18 December-15 February 1976.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life," 3 April-20 July 2003, cat.
JEWISH MUSEUM, New Yotk. "Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power," 31 October 2014-22 March 2015, cat.
Published References:
SPEAR, ATHENA TACHA. "Elie Nadelman's Early Heads (1905-1911)," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 31/3 (Oberlin, Ohio, Spring 1971), p. 212.
KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN. Elie Nadelman (New York: Eakins, 1973), no. 23, ill. 27.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 728, ill. 143.
SELZ, PETER. Art in Our Times A Picturial History 1890-1980 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Harry N. Abrams, 1981), p. 85, ill. no. 188.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number:
66.3781
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Data Source:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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EDAN-URL:
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