Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1856-1857
Object Number:
1857.11
Medium:
Oak
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)
Object Number:
1951.464
Date:
1941
Medium:
Bronze/gold powdered plaster
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 1/2 x 10 5/8 x 12 1/2 in. ( 64.8 x 27 x 31.8 cm )
Marks:
signed: overdrawn with pencil, pencil line beneath: "MALVINA HOFFMAN"
inscribed: label on front of wood base: "34"
Description:
Portrait bust
Gallery Label:
The subject, a native of Poland, was a celebrated pianist known especially as an interpreter of Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
