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Hajdu, Etienne,
Valsuani,
Abstract
Figure female
Allegory -- Other
Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Glendale
Sculpture
Dame de Baigneuse, (sculpture).
Artist:
Hajdu, Etienne, 1907- , sculptor.
Valsuani, founder.
Title:
Dame de Baigneuse, (sculpture).
Dates:
1952. Dedicated 1993.
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Foundation: metal and concrete.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 72 x 23 x 15 in.; Foundation: approx. 2 1/2 x 17 x 23 5/8 in.
Inscription:
Hajdu / CIBE L. VALUANI (sic) PERDUE signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
An abstract, columnar sculpture composed of eight stacked, double wedge-shaped forms reminiscent of primitive or prehistoric tools. The sculpture has human qualities - the top piece is the face and hair; the second, the shoulders; and, the remaining six wedges form the upper and lower torso. The sculpture is mounted on a metal plate on a concrete pad and sits in a circular bed of ivy edged with granite paving stones.
Subject:
Abstract
Figure female
Allegory -- Other -- de Baigneuse, Dame
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Glendale
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Harry Whiting Brown Foundation, 34 Village Square, Glendale, Ohio 45246
Located 205 East Sharon Road at Willow Avenue, in a park west of Harry Whiting Brown Community House, Glendale, Ohio
Provenance:
Donated by Sawyer, Charles, III, 1992.
Formerly in the collection of Sawyer, Charles & Caroline,
Formerly in the collection of Johnson, Mary E., Glendale, Ohio
Remarks:
Nearby plaque reads: IN LOVING MEMORY OF/MARY E. JOHNSON/"AUNTIE"/THE SAWYER FAMILY/1993. The sculpture was originally in the personal collection of Mary E. Johnson of Glendale, in her garden or covered porch, and subsequently belonged to the Caroline and Charles Sawyer family who passed it to Charles Sawyer, III. Charles Sawyer, III gave the sculpture to the H. W. Brown Foundation in 1992, and it now stands near the Harry Whiting Brown Community House in Glendale, historically known as the Douglass House. The house is part of the Glendale National Historic District.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cincinnati survey, 1994.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS OH000491
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