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date: label: Date
content: (1883/cast by 1950)
name: label: Artist
content: Medardo Rosso, Italian, b. Turin, 1858–1928
notes: label: Provenance
content: General Moech, Milan, 1950s
label: Provenance
content: Widow of General Moech, Milan, (from death of General Moech), to June 1961
label: Provenance
content: Peridot Gallery, New York, to 5 June 1961 (through agent Anita De Cristafaro)
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 5 June 1961-17 May 1966
label: Provenance
content: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
label: Exhibition History
content: [MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Medardo Rosso," 1963]
label: Exhibition History
content: OKLAHOMA MUSEUM OF ART, Oklahoma City. "Sculptures from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 9 August 1984-9 August 1985.
label: Published References
content: BORGHI, MINO. Merdado Rosso (Milan: Edizioni del Milione, 1950), p. 62 (as belonging to General Moech).
label: Published References
content: BARR, MARGARET SCOLARI. Medardo Rosso (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963), pp. 22-23, no. 32 (although credited to Joseph Hirshhorn, illustration is not HMSG cast).
label: Published References
content: HUNISAK, JOHN M. Carvings, Casts, and Replicas (Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1994), p. 195.
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
label: School
content: Symbolism
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: 66.4409
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: 17 5/8 x 11 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (44.8 x 29.7 x 17.0 cm) on base: 17 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 4 in. (44.5 x 27.3 x 10.0 cm)