Signed on back, middle left and running diagonally from upper left to lower right: NAKIAN
Inscribed, dated to right of above inscription: 1/4 | 1964/65
Bronze with areas of metallic gilding
Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
68.160
Contemporary Art after 1950
Signed on back, middle left and running diagonally from upper left to lower right: NAKIAN
Inscribed, dated to right of above inscription: 1/4 | 1964/65
(Egan Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1968-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mendelowitz, D. M. A History of American Art, 2nd ed. New York, 1970, fig. 680, p. 501, (ill.). Ocvirk, O. G. et al. Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice. Dubuque, IA, 1975, fig. 222, (ill.). "Sculpture: Demigods from Stamford." TIME (June 30, 1967): 51 (color ill.).
Reuben Nakian, Goddess of the Golden Thighs, 1964 - 1966, bronze with areas of metallic gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 68.160.