Provenance

Bought from Musée Rodin by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. February 1919, as ‘Jean Paul Laurens’ (Fr. 6,000) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., February 1919, 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. 46

1985

, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 6 April 1985 - 6 May 1985, cat. no. 5, repr.

1988

Modern Japanese Sculpture: Encounter with the West, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 3 November 1988 - 18 December 1988, cat. no. 26, col. repr.

1994

Tobari Kogan and Modern Japanese Sculpture, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 25 January 1994 - 6 March 1994, cat. no. 124, repr.

1996

The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 107

1997

Ogihara Morie to nihon no rodanizumu, Rokuzan Art Museum, 30 September 1997 - 3 November 1997, cat. no. 4, repr.

2001

Rodin et le Japon, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 28 April 2001 - 10 June 2001, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 June-19 August, cat. no. 187, col. repr.

2021

National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y3_5 | T3_25

Bibliography

1985

Ogiwara Morie to Nihon no Kindai Chokoku: Rodin no Keifu (exh. cat.). The Museum of Modern Art,Saitama, ed. [Urawa], The Museum of Modern Art,Saitama, 1985, p. 41, cat. no. 5, repr.

1988

Modern Japanese Sculpture: Encounter with the West (exh. cat.). Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1988, pp. 57, 170, 220, cat. no. 26, col. repr.

1989

Goldscheider, Cécile. Rodin, vie et œuvre, Tome I. Paris, Wildenstein Institute, 1989 , pp. 158-159, no. 120.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. S-44.

1994

Tobari Kogan and Modern Japanese Sculpture (exh. cat.). Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. [Nagoya], Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 105, 148, cat. no. 124, repr.

1997

Ogiwara Morie to Nihon no Rodinism (exh. cat.). Rokuzan art museum, ed. Hotakamachi (Nagano), Rokuzan art museum, 1997, p. 13, cat. no. 4, repr.

2001

Rodin et le Japon (exh.cat.). Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, eds. Contemporary Sculpture Center, 2001, pp. 201, 338, cat. no. 187, col. repr.

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. 1278, 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. 113, 182, cat. no. Y3_5 | T3_25, col. repr.

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