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

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.

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