Mask of The Man with a Broken Nose

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Object Details

Artist
Auguste Rodin, French, b. Paris, 1840–1917
Date
1864, cast by 1928
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
12 1/2 X 7 5/8 X 5 5/8 IN. (31.5 X 19.4 X 14.3 CM.)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.4334

Hammer Galleries, New York, to September 1961*
James Graham and Sons, New York, to 13 October 1961
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 13 October 1961-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
*According to Graham. See letter dated 1 June 1972 in Archives.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 387, ill. p. 17.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 85, ill. p. 70, p. 740.

ASHTON, DORE. "New York Report," Das Kunstwerk 16 (October 1962), p. 26.
MATES, ROBERT. Photographing Art (New York: Amphoto, 1966), ill. p. 120.
MATES, ROBERT. "Photographing Sculpture and Museum Exhibits," Curator 10 (June 1967), p. 123, ill. p. 121.
ARNASON, H. HARVARD. History of Modern Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968; Third edi., rev. by Daniel Wheeler, 1986, ill. 120), pp. 56-57, ill. 69.
LERNER, ABRAMS, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), pp. 112, 740, iIl. 85.
LYNES, RUSSEL. "Modern Art Arrives on the Mall in a New Museum and Sculpture Garden," Smithsonian 5 (December 1974), p. 40.
TANCOCK, JOHN. The Sculpture of August Rodin (Philadelphia: Museum of Art, 1976), no. 19-2, pp. 476, 477, and see other casts, p. 478.
MARTINEZ, BENJAMIN, and JACQUELINE BLOCK. Visual Forces (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1987), fig. B, p. 11.
See file for further info.

Signature
Incised LR: A. Rodin
Label Marks

incised LC left side: Alexis RUDIER/ Fondeur PARIS
inscribed inside in red paint: 36-1928

Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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