Cat

1913

Raymond Duchamp-Villon French, 1876-1918

On View

Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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Artwork Date 1913

Artist Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Life Dates 1876-1918

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Carved and stained oak

Dimensions Overall: 27 × 24 7/8 × 3 1/2 inches (68.6 × 63.2 × 8.9 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Gift of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 46.226

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Provenance

the artist, Raymond Duchamp-Villon [1876-1918]

1918, sold to John Quinn [d. 1924] (New York, New York, USA)

February 27, 1927, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) The John Quinn Collection, lot 715. by 1946, acquired by (Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1946–present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

John Quinn, 1870–1925 [sic]: Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings & Sculpture. Huntington, 1926, p. 28.

The John Quinn Collection: Paintings & Sculptures of the Moderns. Sales cat. American Art Association. New York, 1927, p. 245, lot 715.

Origins of Modern Sculpture. Exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1946, pp. 4, 8.

Origins of Modern Sculpture. Exh. cat. City Art Museum of Saint Louis. Saint Louis, 1946, p. 21, no. 103.

Payne, Elizabeth H. “A Carved Relief by Duchamp-Villon.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 26, no. 3 (1947): pp. 65–67 (ill.).

Page, Franklin Addison. Modern Sculpture: A Picture Book of Modern Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1950, pp. 32–33 (ill.).

The Classic Tradition in Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Walker Art Center. Minneapolis, 1953, p. 45, no. 36.

Hamilton, George Heard and William C. Agee, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1876–1918. Exh. cat. M. Knoedler and Company/Walker and Company. New York, 1967, pp. 72–75, cat. 20 (ill.).

Raymond Duchamp-Villon 1876–1918. Exh. cat., Walker and Company. New York, 1967, p. 72–75, no. 20 (ill.).

Zilczer, Judith. "Raymond Duchamp-Villon: Pioneer of Modern Sculpture." Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 76, no. 330 (Autumn, 1980): pp. 3–24, p. 9.

Duchamp-Villon: Collections du Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne et du Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen. Exh. cat., Editions du Centre Pompidou et Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1998, p. 147.

Zilczer, Judith. "Raymond Duchamp-Villon and the American Avant-Garde." Archive of American Art Journal 38, no. 1/2 (1998): pp. 14–27, p. 20.

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