Dog
Date
(1951)/(cast 1957)
Artist
Alberto Giacometti, Swiss, b. Borgonovo, 1901–1966
Provenance
Jh Purchased From Matisse Gallery, Pierre, New York 1958
Exhibition History
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Animal in Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 17 November 1977-15 January 1978, no. 27, cover ill.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966," 15 September-13 November 1988, no. 59, ill. p. 165. TOUR: SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 15 December 1988-5 February 1989.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.
Published References
OTTANI CAVINA, ANNA. Una panchina a Manhattan: Nuove geografie dell'arte (Milan: Adelphi, 2019), fig. 129 (color).
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 84, p. 104.
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School
Surrealism (European)/Postwar European
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.2038
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
17 1/2 × 38 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (44.2 × 96.8 × 15.7 cm)
