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  • A golden sculpture of a faceless figure seated on a pedestal. Its smooth, elegant limbs posed with one arm over its chest and the other resting near its raised knee.
  • Front-view of a golden sculpture of a faceless figure seated on a base with smooth, elongated limbs posed elegantly. The sculpture sits on a light-colored pedestal against a grey-green background.
  • Faint white silhouette of a smooth figure seated on a pedestal.

Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Seated Woman
Now On View

Maker

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

Title

Seated Woman

Year

cast 1915

Medium

  • bronze,
  • gold wash

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • bronze,
  • gold wash

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

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund and Museum Membership Fund

Object Number

67.089

Type

  • Sculpture

Publications

  • Books

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

  • Books

European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

  • Books

Selected Works

Exhibition History

European Galleries
Sep 02, 2017

Label copy

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.

A Tribute from His Friends
Gifts in Memory of Daniel J. Robbins
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Cubism and Its Affinities
Sep 01, 1995 – Dec 10, 1995
From the Reserve III
Cubist Painting
Jul 08, 1994 – Dec 04, 1994
European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937
Oct 18, 1991 – Jan 26, 1992
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Raymond Duchamp-Villon (French, 1876-1918)
Roman Bronze Works, foundry
Seated Woman, cast 1915
Bronze, gold wash
71.1 x 20.3 x 24.1 cm (28 x 8 x 9 1/2 inches)
Mary B. Jackson Fund and Museum Membership Fund 67.089

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