Venus of the Rags
Object Details
- Artist
- Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian, b. Biella, 1933
- Provenance
- The artist
- Sold through Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, 20 October 1999
- Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund, 1999
- Exhibition History
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century," 7 October 1999-17 January 2000, no. 45, ill. p. 43. Tour: HAUS DER KUNST, Munich, 11 February-30 April.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913-Present," 18 April-8 September 2013, no cat.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.
- Published References
- UNSIGNED. "Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century," exhibition brochure (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1999), ill.
- FEAVER, WILLIAM. "Reawakening Beauty," Art News (October 1999), ill. p. 216.
- UNSIGNED. "Different Hues, Views of Beauty," Washington Times (9 October 1999), p. D3.
- UNSIGNED. "Museum Acquisitions: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC," The Art Newspaper 101 (March 2000), p. 30.
- UNSIGNED. "Pistoletto, Codice inverso," GIOIA (April 2001), ill.
- AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 213, pp. 236-237.
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund, 1999
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 99.24
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Plaster and fabric
- Dimensions
- plaster figure: 65 x 22 x 24 1/4 in. (165.1 x 55.9 x 61.6 cm) rags: dimensions variable
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- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_99.24
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2237bc786-f829-46e0-8888-0a89810e1c21
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