Bowing Female Torso

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Object Details

Artist
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German, b. Duisburg, 1881–1919
Date
(1913)
Medium
Stone and paint
Dimensions
36 3/16 × 11 11/16 × 18 3/4 in. (91.9 × 29.7 × 47.7 cm) base: 4 1/8 × 8 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (10.5 × 21.6 × 21 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.2993

Dr. Friedrich Bergius, Heidelberg, Germany
Janos Peter Kramer, Buenos Aires, by June 1956-February 1957
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Sale no. 1730, 6 February 1957, lot 38, ill.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 6 February 1957-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
[KUNSTHALLE MANNHEIM. "Ausstellung des Deutschen Kunstlerbundes 1913," 4 May-30 September 1913, no. 465, p. 38 (may or may not be HMSG cast)].
SOLOMON GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 235, ill. p. 46.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, p. 712, ill. 167, p. 130.
MUSEE D'ORSAY, Paris. "Oublier Rodin: La Sculpture en France, 1905-1914," 9 March-31 May 2009. Tour: FUNDACION CULTURAL MAPFRE, Madrid, 23 June-4 September.

HOFF, AUGUST. Wilhelm Lehmbruck: seine Sendung und sein Werk (Berlin: Rembradt-Verlag, 1936), p. 116.
HOFF, AUGUST. Wilhelm Lehmbruck (Berlin: Rembrandt-Verlag, 1955), p. 161.
UNSIGNED. "Esculturas Argentinas Y Estranjeras," Boletin del Museo (June 1965), ill.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 35, p. 60.

Signature
Incised UL on top of base: LEHMBRUCK

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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