Head of Hanako (Ohta Hisa)

model c. 1908, cast 1965

Auguste Rodin

Sculptor, French, 1840 - 1917

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Cast 1965 by the Musée Rodin, Paris; sold to (Dominion Gallery, Montreal). (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1967, no. 76); purchased by (Hector Brame, Paris) for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1995 to NGA.

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Bibliography

1917

  • Cladel, Judith. Rodin: The Man and His Art. Translated by S.K. Star. New York, 1917: 161-165.

1927

  • Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. Paris, 1927: 97.

1944

  • Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Paris, 1944: 123-124.

1962

  • Keene, Donald. "Hanako." New Japan 14 (1962): 125-127.

1967

  • Spear, Athena Tacha. Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1967: 32-37, 93-94.

1976

  • Tancock, John. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin. Philadelphia, 1976: 546-551.

1977

  • de Caso, Jacques, and Patricia B. Sanders. Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection. San Francisco, 1977: 304-309.

1979

  • Judrin, Claude. Rodin et l'Extrême-Orient. Exh. cat. Musée Rodin, Paris, 1979: 23-43.

1981

  • Rodin Rediscovered. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981: 232-233.

1984

  • Suketaro, Swada. Little Hanako. Nagoya, 1984.

1987

  • Grunfeld, Frederic V. Rodin: A Biography. New York, 1987: 521-522.

1988

  • Beausire, Alain. Quand Rodin Exposait. Paris, 1988: 320, 323, 336, 367.

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: 392-394, color repro.

Inscriptions

on proper lower left side: A. Rodin / N.12; inside head: A. Rodin; stamped into bronze at back of neck: G. Rudier / Fond.Paris.

Wikidata ID

Q63861647


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