Updated 05 October 2023
Currently not on display
Crying Woman
Materials and Techniques | marble |
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Size(cm) | 42 x 50 x 17 |
Inscriptions | Signed left side of base: Rodin |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M1292 |
Category | Sculptures |
Collection Number | S.1959-0044 |
Provenance
[?] Roger Marx; Marx sale, Galerie Manzi, Joyant & Cie, Paris, 11-12 March 1914, lot 250; Rouart, Paris; Paul Rosenberg, Paris; purchased from Rosenberg by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. November 1921, as ‘Marbre – “La douleur”’ (Fr. 6,000) [see letter from Rosenberg to Léonce Bénédite, 11 November 1921, 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
- 1966
- Rodin, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 July 1966 - 11 September 1966, cat. no. 76
- 1988
- [Tour Exhibition] Rodin, The Kurayoshi Museum, 13 May 1988 - 12 June 1988, cat. no. 19
- 1989
- Rodin et la Porte de l’Enfer (Rodin and the Gates of Hell), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 21 October 1989 - 17 December 1989, cat. no. 77
- 1996
- Rodin: Selected Works from National Museum of Western Art, Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum, Towacho, 10 October 1996 - 17 November 1996, cat. no. 20
- 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. 29
Bibliography
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. S-58.
- 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.