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Provenance

The artist; Eugène Blot (died 1938), Paris, probably after 1904 and by 1913 [this and the following according to Eve Turbat, Critical Catalogue of the Work of Camille Claudel (forthcoming), cat. 2020-0294P]; private collection, France, after 1932 and by 1939 [this and the following according to restricted documentation provided by the Galerie Malaquais, Sep. 16, 2022]; by descent within the family; sold to Galerie Malaquais, Paris, 2021; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Camille Claudel, Oct 7, 2023–Feb 19, 2024, cat. 3; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Apr. 2-July 21, 2024

Publications

Emerson Bowyer and Anne-Lise Desmas, Camille Claudel, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023), vi-vii (ill.), 2, 82, 102-04 (ill.), 235, 286 cat. 3.

Quick Overview

Artist: Camille Claudel (French, 1864–1943)
Date: Modeled c. 1882-87
Medium: Plaster with polychrome patina
Dimensions: 52 × 45 × 27 cm (20 1/2 × 17 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: bust
Style: 19th century
Place: France
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Through prior bequest of Joseph Winterbotham; purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor, Anne Searle Bent, and Celia and David Hilliard
Accession no.: 2022.1438

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.