LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with brown patina

Size Notes:

base 3.8 cm

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed 'Elie Nadelman' (on the underskirt)

Exhibited:

(Possibly) New York, Scott & Fowles, A Small Collection of Contemporary Art in America, 1917, no. 15 (as The Dancer). Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, The Arts Club Exhibition, Sculpture by Elie Nadelman, 1925, no. 8a. New York, Kraushaar Galleries, 1932. New York, Rockefeller Center, The Forum, First Annual Fine Arts Exhibition, 1934. Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Centennial Exposition: Department of Fine Arts, 1936, p. 121, no. 25. New York, Milch Galleries, Special Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, 1937. (Possibly) Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1937. New York, Marie Sterner Gallery, 1946-47. St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Art Museum; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism 1911-1947, November 20, 1987-June 5, 1988, pp. 140-41, 212, no. 48, illustrated (as Dancing Figure). Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, March 5-November 12, 2000, pp. 183-85, 291-92, no. 46, illustrated (as Dancing Figure).

Literature:

(Possibly) "Art and Artists: Contemporary American Art Exhibition at Scott & Fowles," New York Evening Globe, November 12, 1917. (Possibly) F.W. Eddy, "News of the Art World: American Contemporary Art at Its Best Capably Shown..," New York World, November 19, 1917. (Possibly) "Nadelman and Pascin at Scott and Fowles," New York Sun, November 19, 1917. (Possibly) "Nadelman and Manship," New York City American, November 25, 1917, illustrated. (Possibly) H. McBride, "Exhibitions at New York Galleries: Nadelman, Demuth and Other Modern Artists," The Fine Arts Journal, vol. 35, no. 12, December 1917, pp. 51-52. (Possibly) "Sculpture at a New York Salon: The Work of a Triumvirate of Modern Sculptors," Vanity Fair, vol. 9, no. 5, January 1918, p. 54, illustrated. "Exhibit Works of Polish Sculptor," Chicago Journal, May 27, 1925, illustrated. "Attractions in the Galleries: Several Notable Displays Round Out the Season Impressively," New York Sun, May 28, 1932. C. Burrows, "A French Draftsman in Brooklyn; Varied: Ten Sculptors," New York Herald Tribune, May 29, 1932. Dance Index, vol. 6, no. 4, April 1947, illustrated. L. Kirstein, Elie Nadelman, New York, 1973, p. 239, no. 39, another example illustrated. J. Perl, "Elie Nadelman," Arts Magazine, vol. 53, no. 2, October 1978, p. 9, illustrated. S. Ramljak, et al., Elie Nadelman: Classical Folk, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2001, p. 27, another example as cover illustration. B. Haskell, Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2003, pp. 89-90, fig. 103, another example illustrated (as Dancing Figure). D. Ngo, ed., Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection + Residence, San Francisco, California, 2006, n.p., illustrated. S. Udall, Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace, Madison, Wisconsin, 2012, p. 241, fig. 131, illustrated.

Provenance:

Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, by 1921. Kraushaar Galleries, New York, by 1932. John F. Kraushaar, New York. Estate of the above. Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 9 April 1947, lot 129, sold by the above. Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, Weston, Connecticut, by 1973. Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1978. Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1979.