Updated 16 April 2025
Currently not on display
Photo by (c) Norihiro Ueno
Currently not on display
Despair
| Date | Before 1890 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | bronze |
| Size（cm） | 18 x 9 x 9 |
| Inscriptions | Signed left side of base: A. Rodin; Foundry mark lower back of base: A. Rudier / Fondeur. Paris |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1262 |
| Category | Sculptures |
| Collection Number | S.1959-0014 |
Provenance
Bought from Musée Rodin by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Kōzaburō Hioki, 13 September 1937, as ‘Désespoir’ (Fr. 15,000) [see accounting record, dated 13 September 1937, in Archives of Musée Rodin, 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. 35
- 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 1988, cat. no. 68
- 2022
- Renoir—Monet—Gauguin: Images of a Floating World: the Collections of Kōjirō Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus, Museum Folkwang, 6 February 2022 - 15 May 2022
Bibliography
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. S-28.
- 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. 1262, col. repr.
- 2022
- Renoir—Monet—Gauguin: Images of a Floating World: the Collections of Kōjirō Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus (exh.cat.). Engel, Nadine; Herlemann, Rebecca, eds. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, [2022], pp. 232, 368, col. repr.