Venus of the Rags
Date
1967
Artist
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian, b. Biella, 1933
Provenance
The artist
Sold through Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, 20 October 1999
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund, 1999
Exhibition History
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century," 7 October 1999-17 January 2000, no. 45, ill. p. 43. Tour: HAUS DER KUNST, Munich, 11 February-30 April.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913-Present," 18 April-8 September 2013, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.
Published References
UNSIGNED. "Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century," exhibition brochure (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1999), ill.
FEAVER, WILLIAM. "Reawakening Beauty," Art News (October 1999), ill. p. 216.
UNSIGNED. "Different Hues, Views of Beauty," Washington Times (9 October 1999), p. D3.
UNSIGNED. "Museum Acquisitions: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC," The Art Newspaper 101 (March 2000), p. 30.
UNSIGNED. "Pistoletto, Codice inverso," GIOIA (April 2001), ill.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 213, pp. 236-237.
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Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund, 1999
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
99.24
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Plaster and fabric
Dimensions
plaster figure: 65 x 22 x 24 1/4 in. (165.1 x 55.9 x 61.6 cm) rags: dimensions variable
