formerly attributed to:

MAILLOL, Aristide

Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales 1861 - Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales 1944

La Jeunesse

Youth

1910, cat c. 1945-1953

bronze

statue

Dimensions (HxWxD): 39 ³⁄₄ x 17 ¹⁄₈ x 12 ⁵⁄₈ in.

Acc. No.: 66.3206

Credit Line: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Photo credit: 2012 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

www.hirshhorn.si.edu

Provenance

• Paris, Martin Fabiani
• New York, Sam Salz
• To 20 October 1958, New York, Peridot Gallery
• 20 October 1958-17 May 1966, New York, Joseph H. Hirshhorn
• 1966, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn

Bibliography

• Museum's website, 2010
• 1959 Unsigned
  UNSIGNED. Milwaukee Sentinel, 27 September 1959, p. D5
• 1962 Kaufman
  BETTY KAUFMAN,"Hirshhorn: The Collector's Art", Commonweal 77, 9 November 1962, p. 183
• 1970 Clapp
  JUDITH CLAPP, Sculpture Index vol. 1, Metuchen, New Jersey, Scarecrow Press, 1970, p. 566
• 1974 Lerner
  ABRAM LERNER et al., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1974, p. 716, ill. 134, p. 108

Exhibitions

• Museum's website, 2010
  
  1959-1960 Detroit/Milwaukee/Minneapolis/Kansas City/Houston/Los Angeles/San Francisco/Colorado Springs/Toronto
  Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 5 May-23 August 1959; MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October 1959; Minneapolis, WALKER ART CENTER, 25 October-6 December 1959; Kansas City, WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, 20 December-31 January 1960; Houston, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 1-27 March 1960; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, 11 April-15 May 1960; San Francisco, M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, 29 May-10 July 1960; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, 24 July-4 September 1960; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October 1960, no. 128, ill. p. 60
  
  1962-1963 New York
  Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, New York, SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 249, ill. p. 29
  
  1965 Houston
  The Heroic Years: Paris 1908-1914, HOUSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 20 October-8 December 1965
  
  1974-1975 Washington
  Inaugural Exhibition, Washington, DC., Smithsonian Institution, HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, 1 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 134, p. 716

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