Female Nude | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.171
People: Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY)
Title: Female Nude
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 20th century
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/301890

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 45.6 x 30.1 cm (17 15/16 x 11 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., graphite: G.Lachaise

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gaston Lachaise, to; Isabel Dutaud (Mrs. Gaston) Lachaise. [E. Weyhe Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1960, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

NOTE: Provenance information from inscription on back of frame.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.171
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Offset (from another drawing?) on verso.

Publication History

Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 114, pp. 325, 371, 378

Exhibition History

Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1980 - 06/15/1980; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/17/1980 - 09/15/1980

Verification Level

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