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Mongolian Dancer (1932)
Bronze, 20 ¼" x 15" x 6"
Signed "© Malvina Hoffman" at left base edge.
Cellini Bronze Works, NY cast. Inscribed base edge. Edition unknown.
Provenance: Gift from Malvina Hoffman to friend Louise X in 1938
From Louise X to artist Virginia Graham, Honolulu, Hawaii, c. 1970
Virginia Graham to Nancy Wyler
Nancy Wyler to private collection, Hawaii
Verso
Signed "© Malvina Hoffman" at left base edge.
Foundry stamp "Cellini Bronze Works, N.Y." on rear of base.
“These people are individuals, not types."
Malvina Hoffman, 1961
Hoffman's bronzes, created for the Field Museum's Races of Mankind exhibition in the early 1930s have engendered quite a bit of debate over the years. Recently curators and anthropologists have rethought these works.