Sold by Order of the Trustees of the
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
to benefit its Acquisition Program
GIACOMO MANZU (b. 1908)
Details
GIACOMO MANZU (b. 1908)
Ballerina
stamped with raised signature on the base MANZU FONDERIA MAF MILANO--bronze with brown patina
Height: 25½ in. (64.8 cm.)
Cast in 1956; unique
Ballerina
stamped with raised signature on the base MANZU FONDERIA MAF MILANO--bronze with brown patina
Height: 25½ in. (64.8 cm.)
Cast in 1956; unique
Provenance
Hanover Gallery, London (1956-1957)
Mrs. Erika Brausen, London
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (1957-1966)
Gift to the Hirshhorn Museum (1966)
Mrs. Erika Brausen, London
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (1957-1966)
Gift to the Hirshhorn Museum (1966)
Literature
J. Rewald, Manzu, Greenwich, 1967, pl. 87 (illustrated)
Exhibited
London, Hanover Gallery, Giacomo Manzù, Nov.-Dec., 1956,
no. 11
Ontario, Art Gallery of Toronto, April, 1957-March, 1959 (on extended loan)
Detroit, Institute of Arts, Sculpture in our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, May-Aug., 1959, no. 134. The exhibition traveled to Milwaukee, Art Center, Sept.-Oct., 1959; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Oct.-Dec., 1959; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Dec., 1959-Jan., 1960; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, March, 1960; Los Angeles, County Museum of History, Science and Art, April-May, 1960; San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, May-July, 1960; Colorado Springs, Fine Arts Center, July-Sept., 1960; Toronto, Art Gallery, Sept.-Oct., 1960.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Oct., 1962-Jan., 1963, no. 258
New York, American Friends of the Hebrew University, University House, Art is Forever, May, 1964
New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Exhibition of the Bronze Reliefs for the Door of Saint Peter's and Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings by Giacomo Manzu, Dec., 1965-Jan., 1966, no. 26
no. 11
Ontario, Art Gallery of Toronto, April, 1957-March, 1959 (on extended loan)
Detroit, Institute of Arts, Sculpture in our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, May-Aug., 1959, no. 134. The exhibition traveled to Milwaukee, Art Center, Sept.-Oct., 1959; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Oct.-Dec., 1959; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Dec., 1959-Jan., 1960; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, March, 1960; Los Angeles, County Museum of History, Science and Art, April-May, 1960; San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, May-July, 1960; Colorado Springs, Fine Arts Center, July-Sept., 1960; Toronto, Art Gallery, Sept.-Oct., 1960.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Oct., 1962-Jan., 1963, no. 258
New York, American Friends of the Hebrew University, University House, Art is Forever, May, 1964
New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Exhibition of the Bronze Reliefs for the Door of Saint Peter's and Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings by Giacomo Manzu, Dec., 1965-Jan., 1966, no. 26