Head of a Woman

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Object Details

Artist
Antoine Pevsner, French, b. Orel, Russia, 1886–1962
Date
1923
Medium
Nitrocellulose plastic on plastic-laminated wood panel
Dimensions
14 3/8 X 9 1/4 X 4 5/8 IN. (36.3 X 23.4 X 11.7 CM.)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Accession Number
72.231

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
André Lefèvre, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Sale, Collection André Lefèvre, 24 November 1967, no. 73, ill. (as Le Clown)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 24 November 1967-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
MUSÉE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE, Paris. "Antoine Pevsner," 21 December 1956-10 March 1957, no. 17 (collection A. Lefèvre)
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.

MASSAT, RENÉ. Antoine Pevsner et le Constructivisme (Paris: Caractères, 1956), ill. 4.
PEISSI, PIERRE, and CAROLA GIEDION-WELCKER. Antoine Pevsner trans. Haakon Chevalier (Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Éditions du Griffon, 1961), ill. no. 38, p. 148.
PEVSNER, ALEXEI. A Biographical Sketch of My Brothers Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner trans. Michael Scammell and William Burke (Amsterdam: Augustin & Schoonman, 1964), p. 53, ill. p. 48.
READ, HERBERT. A Concise History of Modern Sculpture (New York: Praeger, 1964), no. 100, p. 109, ill. p. 98.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1968 Annual Report (Washington, DC, 1969), p. 220.
ZANINI, WALTER. Tendências da escultura moderna (São Paulo: Cultrix, 1971), ill. p. 225.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 732, colorplate, fig. 389, p. 278.

Signature
Incised LL: Pevsner/1923
Inscriptions
No Visible Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Alternate Title
Tete de Femme
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