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Eve
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Title
Eve
Artist
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Date
modeled 1881, cast 1890–93
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
29 1/2 × 9 5/8 × 11 7/8 in. (74.9 × 24.4 × 30.2 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Credit Line
Given by Family and Friends in Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Morsman
Object Number
1964.763
On View
On view
Provenance
Griffoul and Lorge Foundry, Paris, 1890–93.
With Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York, by November 16, 1964;
Purchased from Marlbourough-Gerson Gallery Inc. by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1964 [1].
[1] Funds for this purchase came from the children of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Morsman (Truman, Ed, and Mary), and memorial contributions from friends of Morsman family, along with proceeds from “the sale of house furnishings,” Joslyn Art Museum, Object File.
Exhibition History
Published References
“Rodin’s ‘Eve’ Gets Home at Joslyn: Now on Display,” Omaha World-Herald, November 29, 1964, 4-B, (repro.).
Art Quarterly 27, no.4 (1964): 499.
John L Tancock and Rodin Museum, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976) 155–57.
Jacques De Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin’s Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1977), 143–146.
Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin Exposait (Paris: Editions Musée Rodin, 1988), 82–85.
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 104–105.
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 194–95, (repro.).
