Pavlova Gavotte

Inscription: Signed (side of base at figure's left): © MALVINA HOFFMAN

the artist, New York (1918–26; sold to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "An Exhibition of American Sculpture," 1918–26, no. 37 (as "Pavlowa Gavotte").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Diaghilev: Costumes and Designs of the Ballets Russes," November 24, 1978–June 30, 1979, unnum. brochure.

A. P. Philpott. "Sculptures by Malvina Hoffman." Boston Globe (November 19, 1915), p. 13 (not this cast).

"Recent Accessions: A Modern Crusader." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 14 (February 1919), p. 40.

"Young Boswell Interviews Malvina Hoffman." New York Herald Tribune (May 26, 1923), p. 11 (unknown cast).

Helen Appleton Read. "Malvina Hoffman—Who Sculptures in the 'Old-Fashioned' Way." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (June 8, 1924), p. SM6.

"A Century of American Sculpture." New York Times (April 11, 1926), p. 11.

"A Statue of Mestrovic by Malvina Hoffman." Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 13 (October 1926), p. 105.

J[ohn]. G[oldsmith]. P[hillips]. "Notes: A Portrait in Wax." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 31 (January 1936), p. 15.

Malvina Hoffman. Heads and Tales. New York, 1936, pp. 57–60.

Malvina Hoffman. Malvina Hoffman. New York, 1948, p. 63.

Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, p. 158.

Malvina Hoffman. Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History. New York, 1965, pp. 144–48, ill. (unknown cast).

George Dorris. "Looking at Dance History: Three Exhibitions." Dance Chronicle 2, no. 3 (1978), p. 242.

Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz. Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893–1939. Austin, 1989, pp. 55, 62 n. 17, call it "Gavotte".

Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein. American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions. Boston, 1990, p. 179, ill. (bronze cast), calls it "Pavlova in La Gavotte".

Joan M. Marter in American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Thayer Tolles. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York and New Haven, 2001, pp. 736–37, no. 367, ill., notes that twelve wax casts and twenty-three bronze casts were made of this sculpture during the artist's lifetime, with five additional bronze casts made posthumously.

Janis Conner. "The Ethereal Icon: Malvina Hoffman's Worshipful Imagery of Anna Pavlova." Perspectives on American Sculpture before 1925. Ed. Thayer Tolles. New York, 2003, pp. 141–42, 146, 148, fig. 113.