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Femme
Details
Etienne Hajdu (1907-1996)
Hajdu, E.
Femme
signed 'Hajdu' (on the top of the base), stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'C Valsuani cire Perdu 2-5' (on the back of the base)
polished bronze with gold patina
20 x 7 x 4 in. (51 x 18 x 10 cm.)
Conceived in 1956; this bronze cast at a later date.
Hajdu, E.
Femme
signed 'Hajdu' (on the top of the base), stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'C Valsuani cire Perdu 2-5' (on the back of the base)
polished bronze with gold patina
20 x 7 x 4 in. (51 x 18 x 10 cm.)
Conceived in 1956; this bronze cast at a later date.
Provenance
The Hanover Gallery, London.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (acquired from the above, 1957; gift to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1966).
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (acquired from the above, 1957; gift to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1966).
Literature
L'Oeil, May 1958, no. 41 (illustrated; small figure).
K. Saltmarche, Art Quarterly, 'Notes on Special Exhibitions-Sculpture in Our Times', vol. 22, no. 4 Winter 1959 p. 354 (illustrated fig. 4).
K. Saltmarche, Art Quarterly, 'Notes on Special Exhibitions-Sculpture in Our Times', vol. 22, no. 4 Winter 1959 p. 354 (illustrated fig. 4).
Exhibited
Detroit, Institute of the Arts; Milwaukee Art Center; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles, County Museum; San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum; Colorado Springs, Fine Arts Center. Toronto, Art Gallery, Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, May 1959- October 1960, no. 99.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, October 1962 -January 1963, no. 197.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, October 1962 -January 1963, no. 197.