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The Dog from Pompei

The Dog from Pompei

Allan McCollum (in 1991)

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'Mount Vesuvius was blazing... Cinders fell... then pumice-stones too.' The volcanic eruption of 79 A.D., so graphically described by Pliny, proved fatal to, among other beings, a chained watchdog, which could not escape the disaster and was buried under the ash. The impression of its dying body was discovered in 1870 and cast as a sculpture. In 1991 McCollum was given permission to make 100 plaster casts of it, with the result that this piece of fixed time from the history of Pompeii started to lead a new life in multiplied form.

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Title The Dog from Pompei
Material and technique Plaster
Object type
Sculpture > Three-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Width 51 cm
Height 50,8 cm
Depth 48 cm
Artists : Allan McCollum
Accession number BEK 1662 a-b (MK)
Credits Purchased 1992
Department Modern Art
Acquisition date 1992
Creation date in 1991
Internal exhibitions Omkijken (2025)
Material
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Allan McCollum

Los Angeles 1944

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