Updated 04 March 2024
Currently not on display
Victor Hugo (Two Heads)
Date | 1885 |
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Materials and Techniques | drypoint on laid paper |
Watermarks | None |
Size(cm) | 22.5 x 15.9 (plate); 30.8 x 22.3 (paper) |
Inscriptions | Signed in pencil, lower right margin: Aug Rodin; Numbered in pencil, bottom left: 2; On the verso: numbered in pencil: 19, No 535. |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | Delteil 7(viii / ix); Thorson IX; M2690 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1959-0021 |
Provenance
Purchased from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. September 1920, as ‘V. Hugo, face’ (Fr. 350) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., August-September 1920, in Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris; copy in NMWA curatorial files]; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.
Exhibition History
- 1963
- The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Shimane Prefectural Museum, Matsue, 5 October 1963 - 20 October 1963, P-276[
- 1963
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, 26 October 1963 - 10 November 1963, P-276
- 1964
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Nakajima Sports Center of Hokkaido Prefecture, 22 August 1964 - 13 September 1964, cat. no. 59
- 1965
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa, 22 September 1965 - 10 October 1965, cat. no. 49
- 1965
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, 20 October 1965 - 7 November 1965, cat. no. 49
- 1966
- Rodin, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 July 1966 - 11 September 1966, cat. no. 154
- 1973
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Kochi Prefecture, Kochi, 28 October 1973 - 25 November 1973, cat. no. 54
- 1974
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka, 13 October 1974 - 10 November 1974, cat. no. 52
- 1974
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Saga Prefectural Museum, Saga, 16 November 1974 - 1 December 1974, cat. no. 52
- 1975
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Yamagata Museum, Yamagata, 1 November 1975 - 30 November 1975, cat. no. 53
- 1976
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, 9 October 1976 - 7 November 1976, cat. no. 21
- 1977
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Nara Prefectural Museum, Nara, 15 October 1977 - 13 November 1977, cat. no. 19
- 1988
- [Tour Exhibition] Rodin, The Kurayoshi Museum, 13 May 1988 - 12 June 1988, cat. no. 36
- 1992
- [Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Urasoe Art Museum, 3 November 1992 - 7 December 1992, cat. no. 51
- 1996
- Rodin: Selected Works from National Museum of Western Art, Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum, Towacho, 10 October 1996 - 17 November 1996, cat. no. 35
- 2006
- August Rodin / Eugène Carrière, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 March 2006 - 4 June 2006, cat. no. 71
- 2012
- Traces of Hands: Sculpture and Drawings by Rodin and Bourdelle from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 3 November 2012 - 27 January 2013, cat. no. 89
Bibliography
- 1889
- Lostalot, Alfred de. Expositions diverses, peintures-graveurs: Société des aquarellistes français. Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 1, ser. 3, 1889, p. 235.
- 1907
- Lawton, Frederick. The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin. New York, Charles Scribner's sons, 1907, pp. 82-85.
- 1966
- Sutton, Denys. Triumphant Satyr: The World of Auguste Rodin. New York, Hawthorn Books, 1966, p. 57.
- 1969
- Delteil, Loys. Le Peintre Graveur Illustré: The Graphic Works of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists: An Illustlated Catalog: Rude. Barye, Carpeaux, Rodin. Vol. 6. New York, Collectors Editions Ltd., Da Capo Press, 1969, cat. no. 7.
- 1969
- Tominaga, Soichi. Auguste Rodin. Yomiuri Shimbun-sha, 1969, no. 151. (in Japanese)
- 1975
- Thorson, Victoria. Rodin Graphics: A Catalogue Raisonné of Drypoint and Book Illustrations. San Francisco, The State Museum of San Francisco, 1975, pp. 53-56, cat. no. IX, repr.
- 1987
- Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, l'estampe en France: du XVIème au XIXème siecle (exh. cat.). Musée des estampes de la ville de Machida, ed. 11 July - 16 August 1987. Niigata, Musée d'art de la ville de Niigata, 1987, cat. no. 183.
- 1987
- Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, l'estampe en France: du XVIème au XIXème siecle (exh. cat.). 27 May- -5 July 1987. Tokyo, Musée des estampes de la ville de Machida, 1987, cat. no. 183.
- 1988
- Rodin: Selected Works from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. The National Museum of Western Art ed. Kurayoshi Museum, 1988, no. 36.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1313.
- 1992
- The French Modern Art, from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, ed. Okinawa, Urasoe Art Museum, 1992, p. 59, cat. no. 51, col. repr
- 2001
- Judrin, Claudie. "Rodin's drawing". Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings (exh. cat.). Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2001, pp. 78-79.
- 2002
- Victor Hugo vu par Rodin (exh. cat.). Musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie de Besançon, 4 October 2002 - 27 January, 2003. Besançon, Paris/ Somogy édition d'art; Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, 2002, no. 30.
- 2003
- Elsen, Albert. Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Barryte, Bernard ed. New York, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 295.
- 2004
- Newton, Joy. "William Ernest Henley and the Launching of Rodin's Career". Rodin: The Zola of Sculpture. Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2004, pp. 62-63.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 2690, col. repr.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 35, 174, cat. no. Y1_18 | T1_27, col. repr.