
PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
Girl Washing Her Hair
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March 5, 03:59 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hugo Robus
1885 - 1964
Girl Washing Her Hair
signed HUGO ROBUS (along the base)
marble
17 by 28 ⅝ by 12 ¾ in.
43.2 by 72.9 by 32.4 cm.
Conceived and modeled in 1930; this unique version executed by 1939.
Acquired as an artist commission through the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund in 1939 by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting, Sculpture, Prints, May - September 1939, no. 297
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture and Sculptor’s Drawings, June - July 1941
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture, June 1945 - February 1946
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum Collection of Sculpture, February - May 1946, no. 531
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection, July
1946 - November 1951; January 1952 - August 1954; September 1954 - February 1955
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art in a Changing World: 1884-1964: Painting and Sculpture from the
Museum Collection, January - August 1966
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 200 Years of American Sculpture, March - September 1976
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Hugo Robus, November 1979 - March 1980, no. 5
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Time: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, 1939, no. 297 (plaster version illustrated)
“Museum of Modern Art: More New Works,” ARTNews, vol. XL, issue 9, July 1941, p. 24
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1942, no. 531, p. 73
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1948, no. 648, p. 259, illustrated
Josef Vincent Lombardo, Chaim Gross: Sculptor, New York 1949, p. 57
John I.H. Baur, Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1951, no. 110, illustrated
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1958
Exh. Cat., New York, Forum Gallery, 1966, Hugo Robus, illustrated
Sam Hunter, American Art of the 20th Century, London 1973, no. 422, p. 228, illustrated
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1977, p. 251, illustrated
Roberta K. Tarbell, Hugo Robus (1885-1964), Washington, D.C. 1980, no. 20, fig, 37, pp. 71, 73-75, 78, 87 and 175-77, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts; Kansas, Wichita Art Museum; and New York, National Academy of Design, The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, 1995-96, fig. 62, p. 64, illustrated