Horse by Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Art Institute of Chicago

Horse

Raymond Duchamp-Villon · 1914

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Galerie Louis Carré, Paris; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, by June 6, 1957.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Signposts of Twentieth Century Art, October 27-December 7, 1959, no cat. no., pp. 20 (ill.), 21.

Literature

Published references

  • Katherine Kuh, “Modern Sculpture—Additions and Plans,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 52, 2 (April 1, 1958), cover (ill.), pp. 23-24, as The Great Horse.
  • Katharine Kuh, Signposts of Twentieth Century Art, exh. cat. (Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, 1959), pp. 20 (ill.), 21, as The Great Horse.
  • Simone Frigerio, Sculptures de Duchamp-Villon, exh. cat. (Galerie Louis Carré, 1963), p. 38, cat. 14, as Le Grand Cheval.
  • Alexandra Parigoris, “Truth to Material: Bronze, Posthumous Bronze Re-examined in Modern Sculpture,” in Sculpture and its Reproductions, ed. Anthony Hughes and Erich Ranft (Reaktion Books, 1997), pp. 136-137 (ill.).
  • H. W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson, History of Art, 5th edition (Harry N. Abrams, 1997), p. 846 (ill.), as The Great Horse.
  • H. W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson, History of Art for Young People, 5th edition (Harry Abrams, 1997), p. 553 (ill.), as The Great Horse.
  • Mary Stewart, Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design (McGraw-Hill, 2002), p. 277 (ill.).
  • Anthony Janson, et al., A Basic History of Western Art, 7th edition (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006), p. 549, fig. 25-18 (ill.) as The Great Horse.
  • Penelope E. Davies, et al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, 7th edition (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007), p. 971 (ill.), as The Great Horse.
  • Ronald Alley, Catalogue of The Tate Gallery’s Collection of Modern Art: other than works by British Artists (Tate Gallery in association with Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), p. 193, as The Large Horse.
  • Bryan Granger, “Aaron Curry,” in Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, ed. Lynne Warren (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2010), p. 58, fig. 1 (ill.).
  • Laure de Margerie, “Raymond Duchamp-Villon,” French Sculpture Census (2014), <a href="http://frenchsculpture.org/en/sculpture/6313-horse?rk=163">http://frenchsculpture.org/en/sculpture/6313-horse?rk=163</a>.

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