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Object Details

Artist
Charles Despiau, French, b. Mont–de–Marsan, 1874–1946
Date
(1907)
Medium
Plaster
Dimensions
12 5/8 x 8 3/4 x 10 in. (32.1 x 22.1 x 25.4 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Accession Number
72.96

Joseph Brummer, New York
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, sale, 17-18 February 1944, no. 236
A. Conger Goodyear, Buffalo and New York
Anna Dunbar (Mrs. Davis T. Dunbar), New York
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, sale no. 2679, 4 April 1968, no. 108, ill. p. 11
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 4 April 1968-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
SOCIETÉ NATIONALE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Paris. "Salon de 1907," 1907, no. 1885.
BRUMMER GALLERY, New York. "Despiau," 5 November-29 December 1934, no. 9.
MUSÉE DU PETIT PALAIS, Paris. "Les Maîtres de l'art indépendent, "1895-1937," June-October 1937, no. 48, p. 14.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 141.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection," 26 July 2006-23 September 2007, no cat.

LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 683, fig. 141, ill. p. 111.
See file for further info.

Signature
Incised On Back LC: C. Despiau
Inscriptions
Incised On Bacl LC: Pour Joseph Brion(Illeg.)Er

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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