Artist Monograph

Étienne Hajdu, French

French, born Romania. 1907–1996

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Other Media	2	9.5%
Drawing	2	9.5%
Sculpture	1	4.8%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	19	90.5%
Painting & Sculpture	2	9.5%

Classification Types

Illustrated Book — 18
Sculpture — 2
Print — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Medium (30–100 cm)	20	95.2%
Large (1–3 m)	1	4.8%

Range: 38.0 cm → 196.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1955	1
1958	1
1961	1
1965	18

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 21 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Soldiers in Armor Sculpture Acc. 152.1955	1953	Copper sheet	38 1/2 x 6'5 1/4 x 7" (97.8 x 196.2 x 17.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	A. Conger Goodyear Fund
(Untitled) Print Acc. 423.1961	1958	Inkless intaglio	Sheet and comp. 20 1/2 x 25 1/4" (52.0 x 64.0 cm)(irreg.) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation Fund
White Head Sculpture Acc. 122.1958	1958	Marble	30 1/2 x 13 7/8 x 8" (77.3 x 35.2 x 20.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of The Four Seasons
Double page in-text plate (folios 19 verso and 20) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.9	1965		irreg. composition 10 3/4 x 24 1/2" (27.3 x 62.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page in-text plate (folios 21 verso and 22) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.10	1965		irreg. composition 15 3/4 x 25 9/16" (40 x 65 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page in-text plate (folios 23 verso and 24) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.11	1965		irreg. composition 11 5/16 x 25 1/16" (28.7 x 63.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page in-text plate (folios 25 verso and 26) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.12	1965		irreg. composition 15 11/16 x 25 1/4" (39.9 x 64.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page in-text plate (folios 31 verso and 32) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.15	1965		irreg. composition 14 15/16 x 26 1/4" (38 x 66.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page in-text plate (folios 33 verso and 34) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.16	1965		irreg. composition 12 1/4 x 25 7/8" (31.2 x 65.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page in-text plate (folios 5 verso and 6) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.2	1965		irreg. composition 12 15/16 x 24 11/16" (33 x 62.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page in-text plate (folios 7 verso and 8) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.3	1965		irreg. composition 14 3/8 x 27 9/16" (36.5 x 70 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page in-text plate (folios 9 verso and 10) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.4	1965		irreg. composition 13 5/16 x 23 1/8" (33.8 x 58.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page plate (folios 17 verso and 18) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.8	1965		irreg. composition 15 15/16 x 26 5/16" (40.5 x 66.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Double page plate (folios 27 verso and 28) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.13	1965		irreg. composition 15 15/16 x 26 3/4" (40.5 x 68 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.1-17	1965	17 collagraphs (including variant on wrapper front), printed without ink	irreg. page 17 1/2 x 13 7/8" (44 x 35.3 cm) Prints: various dimensions. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
In-text plate (folio 14) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.6	1965		irreg. composition 17 11/16 x 12 7/8" (45 x 32.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
In-text plate (folio 15 verso) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.7	1965		irreg. composition 17 1/2 x 13 3/8" (44.4 x 34 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
In-text plate (folio 30) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.14	1965		irreg. composition 15 9/16 x 11 7/16" (39.6 x 29.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Plate (folio 12) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.5	1965		irreg. composition 14 15/16 x 11 7/8" (38 x 30.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Title page from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.1	1965		irreg. composition 16 15/16 x 11 7/16" (43 x 29 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Wrapper front (variant of title page) from HERACLITUS Illustrated Book Acc. 826.1965.17	1965	Blind stamp	irreg. composition 17 x 11 1/2" (43.2 x 29.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund