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Artist:
Ossip Zadkine, French, b. Smolensk, Russia, 1890–1967  Search this
Medium:
Marble
Dimensions:
23 5/8 x 16 1/2 x 8in. (60 x 41.9 x 20.3cm) base: 2 1/2 x 18 x 9in. (6.4 x 45.7 x 22.9cm)
Type:
Sculpture
Date:
1918
Provenance:
The Artist, Paris, to 1928
G. P. Dudley Wallis, Esq., Manchester, England, 1928- 18 April 1951 (Sale, Sotheby, London, lot. 103, as "Abstract Sculpture")
Gimpel Fils, London, 18 April 1951-26 August 1957
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 26 August 1957-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History:
WHITWORTH ART GALLERIES, Manchester, England. "Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Ossip Zadkin," May-June 1935, no. 61 or 62.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 208. 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. 438, ill. p. 72.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 392.
Published References:
J. LUCRAT. "Les Vrais Independants," L'Esprit Nouveau, no. 20, ill.
RAYNAL, MAURICE. Ossip Zadkine (Rome: Valori Plastici, 1924), ill.
UNSIGNED. Selection: Cahier 3, Ossip Zadkine (Anvers: Selection, 1928), ill. p. 51 (with date 1926).
DE RIDDER, ANDRE. Zadkine (Paris: Chronique du Jour, 1929), no. 11, ill.
[DORNE, ALBERT. "In the Office: Joseph H. Hirshhorn," Art in America 46 (Summer 1958), ill. p. 41].
TATE GALLERY. Zadkine (London: Arts Council, 1961), no. 13 (exhibition catalogue, polished copper version was shown).
JIANOU, IONEL. Zadkine (Paris: Arted, 1964), no. 39, p. 78, ill.
LICHT, FRED. Sculpture: 19th and 20th centuries (Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1967), no. 237, p. 334, ill.
ARNASON, H. HARVARD. A History of Modern Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968), p. 192, no. 342, ill. p. 193. (Third edition: revised by Daniel Wheeler, 1986, no. 243, p. 172).
GOLDWATER, ROBERT. What is Modern Sculpture? (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1969), p. 146, ill. p. 47.
LERNER, ABRAM, ed. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 760, fig. 392, p. 280.
LIEBSON, MILT. Direct Stone Sculpture: A Guide to Technique and Creativity (Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 1991), ill. p. 16.
FLETCHER, VALERIE J. "Cubist Sculpture," in the brochure (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution), fig. 5.
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Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number:
66.5638
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