Hydra

Provenance

The artist; sold to Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Jan. 16, 1955 [correspondence from Allan Frumkin to the artist; copy in curatorial object file]; probably sold to Joseph R. Shapiro (1904–1996), Chicago, by 1959 [MoMA, 1959]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 8, 1996.

Hydra

Germaine Richier

1954

Accession Number

145248

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

77.5 × 33 × 33 cm (30 1/2 × 13 × 13 in.)

Classification

bronze

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro