© Estate of Dimitri Hadzi
Currently not on view
Centaur,
1954–71
Dimitri Hadzi, 1921–2006; born New York, NY; died Boston, MA; active Rome, Italy and Cambridge, MA
y1971-25
Dimitri Hadzi's pipe-playing centaur reflects the artist's modernist approach, which bridges abstraction and figuration. It also calls upon his lifelong interest in mythology. In myth, the artist noted, centaurs are physical but also intellectual beings; the heroes Achilles and Hercules were both students of centaurs. The fountain was commissioned by President Robert F. Goheen, a classicist, when Prospect House was still home to the University's president.
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Title
Centaur
Dates
1954–71
Maker
Medium
Cast bronze
Dimensions
270 x 170 cm (106 5/16 x 66 15/16 in.)
flutes (A1): 31.8 x diam. 4.8 cm (12 1/2 x 1 7/8 in.)
mold for flute (A2): 39.7 x diam. 9 cm (15 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Brian P. Leeb, Class of 1918
Object Number
y1971-25
Inscription
Note on outside of mold: Firedance Studio. Hopewell, NJ.;
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