
Art Institute of Chicago
The Leap of the Rabbit
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso · 1911
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through Walter Pach, New York, to Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859-1920), Chicago, Apr. 10, 1913 [letter to the artist, May 2, 1913, Walter Kuhn papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, copy in curatorial object file; McCarthy 1996; Washington 1999]; by descent to his wife Lucy O. Eddy (1863-1931) and son Jerome O. Eddy (1891-1951), Chicago, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art, Feb. 17–Mar. 15, 1913, cat. 467; Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 24–Apr. 16, 1913 (cat. 386, as Rabbit Jump).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, Sept. 19–Oct. 22, 1922, cat. 17.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Dec. 22, 1931–Jan. 17, 1932, cat. 15.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 793.
- Cincinnati Art Museum, Pictures for Peace: A Retrospective Exhibition Organized from the “The Armory Show” of 1913, Mar. 18–Apr. 16, 1944, cat. 34.
- Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1913 Armory Show—50th Anniversary Exhibition, Feb. 17–Mar. 31, 1963, cat. 467; New York, Armory of the 69th Regiment, Apr. 6–28, 1963.
- Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris—New York, June 1–Sept. 19, 1977.
- Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centenário do Nascimento de Amedeo de Souza Cardoso, 1887–1987, July 20–Oct. 1987.
- Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, At the Edge: A Portuguese Futurist, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Sept. 11–Nov. 28, 1999, cat. 1; Arts Club of Chicago, Jan. 20–Mar. 17, 2000.
- Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, 1887-1918, Apr. 20–July 18, 2016.
Literature
Published references
- International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (Association of American Painters and Sculptors, 1913), cat. 467 (as Saut du lapin).
- International Exhibition of Modern Art, 2nd ed., exh. cat. (Association of American Painters and Sculptors, 1913), cat. 386.
- Arthur Jerome Eddy, Cubists and Post-Impressionists (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1914), pp. 84 (color ill.); 85.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), cat. 17.
- Exhibition of the Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part II of The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, XXV, no. 9 (Dec. 1931): pp. 22-24, cat. 15.
- A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 172.
- C. J. Bulliet, “The Eddy Gift to Chicago,” Creative Art 10 (March 1932), p. 216.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 85, cat. 793.
- Cincinnati Art Museum, Pictures for Peace: A Retrospective Exhibition Organized from the “The Armory Show” of 1913, exh. cat. (Cincinnati Art Museum, 1944), cat. 34.
- “A exposição de Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso,” Jornal de Notícias, May 11, 1956.
- José-Augusto França, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (Editorial Sul, 1956), pp. 61; 63, cat 6; n.p. (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 421.
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