Boy Balancing on a Ball, model 1888, cast probably c. 1905

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 24.6 x 7.6 x 7.3 cm (9 11/16 x 3 x 2 7/8 in.)
overall (marble base): 3.7 x 9.2 x 6 cm (1 7/16 x 3 5/8 x 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. Dieter Erich Meyer

Accession Number

1976.3.1

Artists / Makers

Johannes Götz (artist) German, 1865 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

on proper right side of ball, in script: J. Götz / Berlin

Provenance

Erich Meyer [1893-1968], Görlitz, Silesia, Germany, probably before 1933; gift 1939 to his son, Dr. Dieter Erich Meyer [b. 1926], Berlin-Dahlem, Germany;[1] gift 1976 to NGA.

[1] Letter from the donor, Dr. Dieter Erich Meyer, to Douglas Lewis, dated 29 December 1975 (in NGA curatorial files). Dr. Meyer received the bronze as a gift from his father in 1939. He remembered having seen it in the family home around 1933, when he was seven years old.

Associated Names

Meyer, Dieter Erich, Dr.
Meyer, Erich

Exhibition History

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2009-2010, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1976: National Gallery of Art. 1975 Annual Report. Washington, D.C., 1976: 28.

1991: Richardson, John, and Marilyn McCully. A Life of Picasso: Volume 1: 1881-1906. New York, 1991: 346-347, 509 n. 48, repro. 347.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 103, repro.

2000: Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 272-275, color repro.