Updated 08 April 2025
Currently not on display
Photo by (c) Norihiro Ueno
Currently not on display
Lying Selene
| Date | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | bronze |
| Size（cm） | 85 x 75 x 21 |
| Inscriptions | Signed, dated and titled left back of base: SÉLÉNÉ / Emile Antoine / Bourdelle / Juin 1917; Foundry mark lower right back of base: Alexis. Rudier. / Fondeur. Paris. |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1220 |
| Category | Sculptures |
| Collection Number | S.1959-0058 |
Provenance
Ordered from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. May 1921 (Fr. 20,000) [see letter from Bénédite to Emille Bourdelle, dated 14 May 1921, in Archives of Musée Bourdelle, 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
- 1968
- Bourdelle, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 July 1968 - 25 August 1968, Kyoto National Museum, 8 September – 27 October 1968, cat. no. 61
- 2015
- Japan's Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 8 October 2015 - 21 February 2016, cat. no. 78, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. S-6.
- 2015
- Japan's Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir (exh. cat.). Marks-Hanssen, Beate, ed. Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle, 2015, pp. 136, 246, cat. no. 78, 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. 1220, col. repr.