Head of Sorrow
date: label: Date
content: 1882/enlarged 1889-1904/cast 1954
name: label: Artist
content: Auguste Rodin, French, b. Paris, 1840–1917
notes: label: Provenance
content: Musee Rodin, Paris, 1954
label: Provenance
content: Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, to 10 May 1954
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 10 May 1954-17 May 1966
label: Provenance
content: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
label: Exhibition History
content: CURT VALENTIN GALLERY, New York. "Auguste Rodin," 4-29 May 1954, no. 7, ill.
label: Exhibition History
content: BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Waltham, Massachusetts. "Three Collections," 1-17 June 1955, no. 37.
label: Exhibition History
content: DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 35. TOUR: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.
label: Exhibition History
content: SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 389.
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, p. 103, 741, ill. 154.
label: Published References
content: SALTMARCHE, KENNETH. "Notes on Special Exhibitions: 'Sculptue in Our Time,'" Art Quarterly 22 (Winter 1959), p. 351.
label: Published References
content: SPEAR, ATHENA TACHA. "A Note on Rodin's Prodigal Son' and on the Relationship of Rodin's Marbles and Bronzes," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, Oberlin College, Ohio, 27 (Fall 1969), no. L-2, p. 36.
label: Published References
content: LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), pp. 103, 741, ill. p. 154.
label: Published References
content: TANCOCK, JOHN. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin (Philadelphia: Museum of Art, 1976), no. 9-3, see other casts, p. 162.
label: Published References
content: AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 3, p. 32.
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
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: 66.4329
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: 9 1/4 × 8 3/4 × 10 5/8 in. (23.3 × 22.2 × 26.9 cm)