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Object Details

Provenance
Stable Gallery, New York, to 20 May 1959
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 20 May 1959-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
STABLE GALLERY, New York. Isamu Noguchi, 29 April-30 May 1959, no. 34.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 354, ill. p. 180.
ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, DC. "Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics," 4 May - 7 September 2003. TOUR: JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM, Los Angeles, CA, February - 30 May 2004.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Speculative Forms," 16 June 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.
Published References
GROVE, NANCY, and DIANE BOTNICK. The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue. (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1980): no. 421, p. 73, ill.
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Artist
Isamu Noguchi, American, b. Los Angeles, California, 1904–1988
Date
(1956)
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Medium
Iron
Dimensions
9 1/2 × 10 1/8 × 4 in., 9 lb. (24.1 × 25.7 × 10.2 cm, 4.1 kg)
Type
Sculpture

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