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Torso of a Woman

Title	Torso of a Woman
Artist	荻原守衛　OGIHARA Morie
Date	1907 (cast 1993)
Medium	bronze
Dimensions	44.7×17.0×24.5
Classification	Sculptures
Accession Number	JS199300006000
Summary	This sculpture was created at the Académie Julian and is one of the works he brought back lo Japan, along with his Priest Mongaku praised by Takamura Kotaro. The Torso was not accepted for the 2nd Bunten exhibition, where he received a prize for Mongaku, because of its unfinished state. In response to a reporter who asked why there was no head, Ogiwara replied that he had created the work on the basis of glimpses stolen of a model in the next classroom whose “line from both armpits to hip he had an unquenchable admiration for.” The work on this piece was interrupted when he was fond fault with his peeping. Thus there is a sharp cut off surface at both shoulders, and Ogiwara determined that he considered this work complete as just a torso because the part of the model which attracted him, the outline of her sides, was included in the work. The sculpture also has a superb balance in the sense of mass between the mass of the chest which is pushed back and constricted contrasting with the legs stretching forward. The forceful feel of the muscles themselves also give this masterwork a sense of fresh youthfulness.

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Native place	Hodaka, Nagano, JPN
Birth	1879
Dead place	Tokyo, JPN
Died	1910
Biography	Born in Higashihotaka-mura, Minamiazumi-gun, Nagano prefecture. Move to Tokyo in 1899 and studied Western-style painting at the Fudo-sha. Traveled to New York for study in 1901 and on to Paris in 1903, where he studied at the Académie Julian. The following year he saw Rodin's “The Thinker” in the Salon exhibition and this determined his shift to sculpture. In 1905 he entered the sculpture department of the Académie Julian, visited Rodin and received his helpful advice. In 1908 he returned to Japan. Entered his Priest Mongaku in the 2nd Bunten exhibition held in 1908 where it received 3rd Prize. The following year his Portrait of Hojo Torakichi also earned a 3rd Prize. His works filled with a sense of vitality and his statements about Rodin brought Japanese sculpture into the Modern age, and he gathered around him such compatriots as the painting students Nakamura Tsune, Nakahara Teijiro, and Tohari Kogan and Takamura Kotaro who he met while overseas. He died of a lung hemorrhage at the age of 30. His work “Woman” was named an Important Cultural Property in 1967, the first time a post-Meiji period sculpture had been to honored.

Torso of a Woman

OGIHARA Morie