Saint John the Baptist Preaching (reduction)

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Saint John the Baptist Preaching (reduction)

Artist Auguste Rodin French, 1840–1917

DateModeled circa 1880, Musée Rodin cast 1974

MediumBronze

Dimensions19 3/4 x 11 x 9 1/8 in. (50.2 x 27.9 x 23.2 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

Object number2009.1.3

On View

On view

ProvenanceMusée Rodin, Paris; sold to B. Gerald Cantor, Beverly Hills and New York, 1978; sold to Joseph Gaumont, New York, October 1979; with estate of Joseph Gaumont; sold to Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, Los Angeles, July 1993; given to NCMA, 2009.
Published ReferencesDavid Steel, Rodin: The Cantor Foundation Gift to the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), cat. no. 3, illus. (color), also mentioned 2, 3, 34.
Exhibition HistoryTokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, July 30–August 25, 1976; Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, August 29–September 26, 1976; Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, October 2–October 24, 1976; Kita-Kyushu, Kita-Kyushu Municipal Museum of Art, October 28–November 21, 1976; Morioka, Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art, November 27–December 20, 1976; Kobe, Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, December 26, 1976–January 30, 1977.

Possibly Tempe, AZ, Arizona State University, 1993 and 1995?

Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art, “Portland-Portland Show,” June 29–October 9, 1994; Portland, OR, Portland Art Museum, November 22, 1994–January 22, 1995.Spokane, WA, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, January 30, 1995–December 15, 2008.

Brunswick, ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, “Rodin – The Knowledge of a Thousand Gestures,” January 29–August 3, 2009.

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