Forms and Light (Mother and Child)

Date

1918

Artist

Ossip Zadkine, French, b. Smolensk, Russia, 1890–1967

Provenance

The Artist, Paris, to 1928

G. P. Dudley Wallis, Esq., Manchester, England, 1928- 18 April 1951 (Sale, Sotheby, London, lot. 103, as "Abstract Sculpture")

Gimpel Fils, London, 18 April 1951-26 August 1957

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 26 August 1957-17 May 1966

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Exhibition History

WHITWORTH ART GALLERIES, Manchester, England. "Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Ossip Zadkin," May-June 1935, no. 61 or 62.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 208. TOUR: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.

SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 438, ill. p. 72.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 392.

Published References

J. LUCRAT. "Les Vrais Independants," L'Esprit Nouveau, no. 20, ill.

RAYNAL, MAURICE. Ossip Zadkine (Rome: Valori Plastici, 1924), ill.

UNSIGNED. Selection: Cahier 3, Ossip Zadkine (Anvers: Selection, 1928), ill. p. 51 (with date 1926).

DE RIDDER, ANDRE. Zadkine (Paris: Chronique du Jour, 1929), no. 11, ill.

[DORNE, ALBERT. "In the Office: Joseph H. Hirshhorn," Art in America 46 (Summer 1958), ill. p. 41].

TATE GALLERY. Zadkine (London: Arts Council, 1961), no. 13 (exhibition catalogue, polished copper version was shown).

JIANOU, IONEL. Zadkine (Paris: Arted, 1964), no. 39, p. 78, ill.

LICHT, FRED. Sculpture: 19th and 20th centuries (Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1967), no. 237, p. 334, ill.

ARNASON, H. HARVARD. A History of Modern Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968), p. 192, no. 342, ill. p. 193. (Third edition: revised by Daniel Wheeler, 1986, no. 243, p. 172).

GOLDWATER, ROBERT. What is Modern Sculpture? (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1969), p. 146, ill. p. 47.

LERNER, ABRAM, ed. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 760, fig. 392, p. 280.

LIEBSON, MILT. Direct Stone Sculpture: A Guide to Technique and Creativity (Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 1991), ill. p. 16.

FLETCHER, VALERIE J. "Cubist Sculpture," in the brochure (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution), fig. 5.

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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

66.5638

Type

Sculpture

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

23 5/8 x 16 1/2 x 8in. (60 x 41.9 x 20.3cm) base: 2 1/2 x 18 x 9in. (6.4 x 45.7 x 22.9cm)