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Saint Paul
Giovanni Pisano (Italian, Pisan, c. 1240–before 1320)
Title
Saint Paul
Artist
Giovanni Pisano (Italian, Pisan, c. 1240–before 1320)
Date
c. 1290–1305
Medium
marble
Dimensions
56 × 19 1/2 × 11 1/4 in. (142.2 × 49.5 × 28.6 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Woods, Jr.
Object Number
1965.169
On View
On view
Provenance
Private collection, Italy.
With Adolph Loewi, Inc., gallery, Los Angeles, by 1948–1965 [1];
Their sale to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1965.
[1] Correspondence between Adolph Loewi and Pietro Toesca, 1 March 1948, Joslyn Art Museum, Object File. The German Jewish dealer Adolph “Adolpho” Loewi (1910–1993) left Italy with his family and much of his Italian gallery’s stock (Venice, est.1911) in 1939, relocating to New York and then Beverly Hills. The sculpture may have transferred to the US at this time.
Exhibition History
Published References
W.A. McGonagle, “St. Paul,” Sunday World-Herald, November 28, 1965, 10, (repro.).
Leonard Thiessen, “'Civilisation’ Films Enchant Audiences,” Omaha World-Herald, January 31, 1971, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 14–15, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 34–35, (repro.).
