Male Nude | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.184
People: Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY)
Title: Male Nude
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 20th century
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/303458

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 48.3 x 30.8 cm (19 x 12 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., graphite: G. Lachaise
inscription: graphite, upper right: 22-32

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Knoedler Galleries, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1947, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.184
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. 133, pp. 371, 374, 380

Verification Level

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