Horse

John Quinn, New York (1921–d. 1924; commissioned from a plaster cast acquired from the artist's widow in 1921 for Fr 6,000; his estate, from 1924); Walter Pach, New York (by 1926–49; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, January 6, 1949, no. 98, as "The Horse: Bronze," sold for $1,050 to Kaufmann); Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., New York (1949–d. 1989; his estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, November 15, 1989, no. 11, as "Petit cheval," height 15 3/8", sold to Lauder); Leonard A. Lauder, New York (1990–2013; transferred on April 8, 2013 to the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust); Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust, New York (from 2013)

New York. Sculptors' Gallery. "Contemporary French Art," March 24–April 10, 1922, extended to April 16, 1922, no. 34 (dated 1919).

Detroit Institute of Arts. "Origins of Modern Sculpture," January 22–March 3, 1946, unnumbered cat. (p. 8; lent by Mr. Walter Pach, New York).

City Art Museum of Saint Louis. "Origins of Modern Sculpture," March 30–May 1, 1946, no. 100 (lent by Mr. Walter Pach, New York).

New York. Rose Fried Gallery. "Duchamp frères & soeur," February 25–March 1952, no. 4 (dated 1913, erroneously listed as belonging in the collection of Katherine S. Dreier).

New York. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. "The Sculpture of Duchamp-Villon: Le cheval majeur," October 1–November 4, 1967, no catalogue [see Ref. Agee 1967].

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The Cubist Epoch," December 15, 1970–February 21, 1971, no. 77 (as "Small Horse," lent by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., New York).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Cubist Epoch," April 9–June 7, 1971, no. 77.

Washington. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. "'The Noble Buyer': John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde," June 15–September 4, 1978, no. 19 (as "The Horse," lent by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., New York).

Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Raymond Duchamp-Villon: Special Exhibition," October 26, 1980–January 4, 1981, no catalogue.

Royal Cortissoz. "A Group of Frenchmen at the Sculptors' Gallery." New York Tribune (April 2, 1922), p. C8.

Walter Pach. The Masters of Modern Art. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1924). New York, 1925, pp. 111–12, fig. 29, as "The Horse".

Forbes Watson. John Quinn, 1870–1925: Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings and Sculpture. Huntington, N.Y., 1926, p. 27, as "Bronze Horse".

George Heard Hamilton. "Raymond Duchamp-Villon." L'Oeil no. 151–53 (September 1967), pp. 54, 82, ill. p. 52, no. 1, p. 55, no. 5 (installation photo, Exh. New York 1922).

William C. Agee in Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1876–1918. New York, 1967, p. 86, no. 7, erroneous measurements given.

H. H. Arnason. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, [1968], p. 188, fig. 328, erroneous measurements given.

Douglas Cooper. The Cubist Epoch. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. London, 1970, pp. 241, 284, no. 77, pl. 289.

Judith Zilczer. "The Noble Buyer:" John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde. Exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, 1978, pp. 44, 91, 157, no. 19, ill. (color).

Judith Zilczer. "Raymond Duchamp-Villon: Pioneer of Modern Sculpture." Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 76 (Fall 1980), pp. 15, 17, fig. 27, as "The Horse".

Judith Zilczer. "In the Face of War: The Last Works of Raymond Duchamp-Villon." Art Bulletin 65 (March 1983), pp. 139, 144, fig. 1, as "The Horse".

Jean Habert. "Le 'Cheval Majeur' de Raymond Duchamp-Villon." La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 35, no. 1 (1985), pp. 57–58.

Judith K. Zilczer. "Raymond Duchamp-Villon and the American Avant-Garde." Archives of American Art Journal 38, no. 1/2 (1998), pp. 22–23, as "The Horse".

Bennard B. Perlman. American Artists, Authors, and Collectors: The Walter Pach Letters, 1906–1958. Albany, 2002, p. 227 n. 4, p. 309, as "The Horse".

"Dear Dee, Dear Miss Dreier: The Selected Correspondence of Katherine S. Dreier and Marcel Duchamp." Etant donné Marcel Duchamp Ed. Paul B. Franklin, ed. no. 9 (2009), p. 141 n. 131, notes that in a February 21, 1952 letter to Katherine S. Dreier, Duchamp refers to the erroneous credit line published for this work in the catalogue for Exh. New York 1952.

Mouna Mekouar in Chefs-d'oeuvre? Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou-Metz. Metz, 2010, p. 153.

"Objects Promised to the Museum during the Year 2012–2013." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, One Hundred Forty-third Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013 (2013), p. 46, as "Small Horse (Petit cheval)".

Assia Quesnel in Raymond Duchamp-Villon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté et inventaire de l'oeuvre graphique / Catalogue raisonné of Sculpture and Inventory of Graphic Work. Ed. Patrick Jullien with Assia Quesnel. Paris, 2020, pp. 378, 382, 390, 394–95, no. 116.D.1, fig. 140.