Severine

ca. 1893

Not on view

Sold to Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1968), San Francisco, August 1915; [1]
Gift to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1941; [2]
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.
[1] Per Caso and Sanders 1977, p. 294, note 9, citing a contract of August 27, 1941 between Loie Fuller and Spreckels, ex–collection of Jean Scott Frickelton (1898–1977), Palo Alto.
[2] On loan to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor from 1924. See San Francisco 1924, no. 171, where it is listed as “The Negress.”
Inaugural Exposition of French Art in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California, 1924–1925, exh. cat. (San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1924), p. 41, no. 171.
Caso, Jacques de and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin’s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1977), pp. 117–119, no. 18.
Le Normand–Romain, Antoinette, with the collaboration of Hélène Marraud and Diane Tytgat, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, 2 vols. (Paris: Musée Rodin and Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007), vol. 2, p. 649.

Currently on view