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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Leonard Baskin, Hephaestus, 1963
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Leonard Baskin, Hephaestus, 1963
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Leonard Baskin American, 1922-2000

Hephaestus, 1963
Cast bronze
63 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 23 7/8 in (160.7 x 67.9 x 60.6 cm)
Edition of 4

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Of the three other editions of Baskin’s Hephaestus, one is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and another in the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden


Of the three other editions of Baskin’s Hephaestus, one is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and another in the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden


Literature

John Canaday, "Baskin and the Sooty God: In a New Exhibition, the American Sculptor Not Only Affirms His High Position, But Tops It," The New York Times, 9 February 1964.


Jacob Nyenhuis, Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker, Detroit, 2003, p. 67.


Publications

George Braziller, Baskin: Sculpture, Drawings & Prints, New York, 1970, no. 35, illustrated.


Irma Jaffe, The Sculpture of Leonard Baskin, New York, 1980, no. 114, pp. 10, 34, 168, 170, 214, illustrated.

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