Arm
Date
1959/cast 1961
Artist
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, b. Málaga, 1881–1973
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris, (Aneil-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris, ca. 1961-62
Saidenberg Gallery, New York to 6 March 1963
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (by exchange), 6 March 1963-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, New York, organizer. (Annual benefit for the P.E.A, held by cooperating New York galleries. Sculpture was shown at the Otto Gerson Gallery, New York). Picasso, An American Tribute, 25 April-12 May 1962, no. 35, ill.
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO, Toronto, Canada. Picasso and Man, 11 January-16 February 1964, no. 269, ill. p. 152. Tour: MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 28 February-31 March.
DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS and FORT WORTH ARTS CENTER. Picasso, 8 February-26 March 1967, no. 93, p. 98
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. The Sculpture of Picasso, 16 October 1967-7 January 1968, no. 146, ill. p. 224. Catalog by Roland Penrose and Alicia Legg. Tour: THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO.
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART. The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture from Rodin to 1969, 2 December 1969-1 February 1970, no. 56, ill. p. 63, catalog by Albert Elsen.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, ill. 593 p. 413, p. 734.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective, 1 May -30 September 1980, catalog by William Rubin, p. 436.
NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin. Picasso--Plastiken, 6 October-27 November 1983, no. 555, ill. p. 362, pp. 397, 424. Book catalog by Werner Spies as Picasso--Das Plastische Werk. Tour: KUNSTHALLE, Dusseldorf, 11 December 1983-29 January 1984.
THE NEWPORT HARBOR ART MUSEUM, Newport Beach, CA. The Essential Gesture, 15 October-31 December 1994, no. 21, ill. p. 25.
CENTRE GEORGES POMIDOU, Paris. Picasso Sculpteur, 7 June-25 September 2000, no. 555, ill. p. 383.
NATIONAL GALLERY CANADA, Ottawa. The Body Transformed, 15 May-12 October 2003.
Published References
PENROSE, ROLAND. The Sculpture of Picasso (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967), ill. p. 159.
ELSEN, ALBERT. "Notes on the Parial Figure," Artforum 3 (November 1969), p. 63, ill. p. 58.
LERNER, ABRAM, et. al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 734, ill. p. 593.
HYAMS, BARRY. Hirshhorn: Medici from Brooklyn (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979), p. 130.
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School
Spanish Modernism
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
66.4054
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
22 7/8 x 7 3/4 x 6 1/4in. (58.1 x 19.7 x 15.9cm) base: 5/8 in., 10 lb. (1.6 cm, 4.5 kg)
