Updated 05 October 2023
Currently not on display
Photo by (c) Norihiro Ueno
Currently not on display
Small Torso
Materials and Techniques | bronze |
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Size(cm) | 28 x 20 x 12 |
Inscriptions | Signed left side of left leg: A. Rodin; Foundry mark right leg: Alexis RUDIER. / Fondeur. Paris. |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M1291 |
Category | Sculptures |
Collection Number | S.1959-0043 |
Provenance
Bought from Musée Rodin by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Kōzaburō Hioki, 26 September 1936, as ‘Petit torse homme’ (Fr. 15,000) [see accounting record dated 26 September 1936, in Archives of Musée Rodin; 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
- 1966
- Rodin, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 July 1966 - 11 September 1966, cat. no. 87
- 1988
- [Tour Exhibition] Rodin, The Kurayoshi Museum, 13 May 1988 - 12 June 1988, cat. no. 4
- 1996
- Rodin: Selected Works from National Museum of Western Art, Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum, Towacho, 10 October 1996 - 17 November 1996, cat. no. 8
- 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. 1
Bibliography
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. S-57.
- 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. 1292, col. repr.