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Maternity (La Grande Maternité)

Object Details

Artist
Henri Laurens, French, b. Paris, 1885–1954
Date
(1932)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
21 X 55 7/8 X 24 IN. (53.1 X 142.0 X 60.9 CM.)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.2909

The Artist (or his son Claude)
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, to 27 December 1961
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 27 December 1961-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
[KUNSTHAUS ZURICH. "Henri Laurens," 3 July-13 August 1961, no. 77].
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 231, ill. p. 71.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.

SWEENEY, JAMES JOHNSON. "A Living Frame for Sculpture," House & Garden 126 (August 1964), ill. p. 113.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 711, ill. 458.
LERNER, ABRAM. An Introduction to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), ill. 64.
UNSIGNED. The Smithsonian Torch (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, June 1975), ill. p. 1.
FLETCHER, VALERIE J. A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C. : Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with Thames and Hudson, New York, 1998), no. 10, ill. p. 46.

Signature
Incised On Upper Surface Of Base At Rear: HL...
Inscriptions
Incised On Upper Surface Of Base At Rear: HL 1/6

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Edition

1/6

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