Head of a Woman
date: label: Date
content: c. 1907-1908
name: label: Artist
content: Elie Nadelman, American, b. Warsaw, Poland, 1882–1946
notes: label: Provenance
content: The Artist
label: Provenance
content: Helena Rubinstein, New York and Paris (acquired from the Artist)
label: Provenance
content: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, sale 2428, Modern Paintings and Sculpture from the Helena Rubinstein Collection, 20 April 1966, no. 22, ill.
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 20 April 1966-17 May 1966
label: Provenance
content: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
label: Exhibition History
content: GALERIE DRUET, Paris. "Elie Nadelman," 26 April-8 May 1909.
label: Exhibition History
content: INTERNATIONAL GALLERY, New York. "Sculpture by Elie Nadelman from the Private Collection of Helena Rubinstein," 16 April-6 May 1932.
label: Exhibition History
content: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE, Washington, DC. "Twentieth Century Sculptors and Their Drawings: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1979-80," no. 40, pp. 50, 51. Tour: COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART, Ohio, 20 June-19 August 1979; COLUMBUS MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER, Columbus, Georgia, 22 September-10 November; FLINT INSTITUTE OF ART, Michigan, 15 December-3 February 1980; SOCIETY OF FOUR ARTS, Palm Beach, Florida, 23 February-13 April; ANCHORAGE HISTORICAL AND FINE ARTS MUSEUM, 3 May-22 June; YELLOWSTONE ART CENTER, Billings, Montana, 26 July-23 September.
label: Exhibition History
content: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life," 3 April-20 July 2003, cat.
label: Exhibition History
content: JEWISH MUSEUM, New York. "Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power," 21 April-12 July 2015, color ill. p. 74.
label: Published References
content: MURRELL, WILLIAM. Elie Nadelman (Woodstock, New York: William Fisher, 1923), nos. 8 and 9, ill.
label: Published References
content: MCBRIDE, HENRY. "Elie Nadelman," Creative Art 10/5 (May 1932), ill. p. 392.
label: Published References
content: SPEAR, ATHENA TACHA. "Elie Nadelman's Early Heads," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 38/3 (Spring 1971), p. 210, ill. 9, p. 212.
label: Published References
content: KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN. Elie Nadelman (New York: Eakins, 1973), no. 7, ill. 17.
label: Published References
content: UNSIGNED. "Highlights," National Sculpture Review 26/3 (Fall 1977).
label: Published References
content: MILLER, SANDA. Constantin Brancusi: A Survey of His Work (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), no. 104, ill. p. 146.
label: Published References
content: AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 43, p. 66.
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
label: On View
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66.3783
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: 13 1/2 × 8 1/8 × 11 in. (34.3 × 20.6 × 27.9 cm)