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Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Seated Woman, cast 1915

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Description

Maker

  • Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1876-1918, French
  • Roman Bronze Works, foundry

Title

Seated Woman

Year

cast 1915

Medium

Bronze, gold wash

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • bronze

Dimensions

71.1 x 20.3 x 24.1 cm (28 x 8 x 9 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, right side of base:R. Duchamp-Villon; stamped, back of base:Roman Bronze Works / New York

Type

  • Sculpture

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund and Museum Membership Fund

Object Number

67.089

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A Tribute from His Friends

June 21 - September 29, 1996

Cubism and Its Affinities

September 1 - December 10, 1995

From the Reserve III

July 8 - December 4, 1994

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937

October 18, 1991 - January 26, 1992

New Acquisitions 1966-1967

September 1 - October 29, 1967

European Galleries

Duchamp-Villon's gold-washed Seated Woman represents a modern reaction to the modeled forms of traditional realist sculpture. The artist re-formed the female figure using a pared-down vocabulary of geometric shapes to represent her head, torso, and limbs. The parts of Seated Woman resemble the uniformly turned components of a jointed wooden artist's mannequin. Duchamp-Villon embeds in this simplified form a witty reference to the pose Michelangelo invented for the muscular female Sibyls he painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the early 1500s.

Related

Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Seated Woman, Study, 1914

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