What happened to the world’s largest bronze commission in art history? It wound up in the basement of the Field Museum hidden for 50 yrs - Here’s #JohnOliver next to one of sculptor Malvina Hoffman’s 105 life size bronzes 1930 + she was the highest paid artist ever for art commissiin. This is larger than Rodin’s Gates of Hell. @lastweektonight

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Ballerina Anna Pavlova posed with sculptor Malvina Hoffman for 15 yrs to sculpt the 26-panel bas relief Bacchanale frieze. The @nytimes art critic in 1915 compared Malvina’s study of movement to Michelangelo and Rodin. He suggested it was a masterpiece. Pavlova died in 1931 and the sculptor was so bereft she kept the frieze in her studio until her death in 1966.

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Ballerina Anna Pavlova and sculptor Malvina Hoffman were single Victorian-born women who collaborated in the all male global businessnof art and dance to reach international success before women had the right to vote

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Hello! Meet sculptor Malvina Hoffman - erased from art history(probably due to gender)
•Rodin protege + friend
•Collaborated w ballerina Anna Pavlova
•1st woman installed Luxembourg Gardens 1919
•largest bronze commission in art history, 1930
•highest paid artist ever, 1930
•global adventurer
•humanitarian

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