Female Nude (No. 3) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.163
People: Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY)
Title: Female Nude (No. 3)
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 20th century
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305782

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 42.6 x 27.6 cm (16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.c., graphite: G L

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1957, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

NOTE: Provenance information from label on back of frame.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.163
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. 121, fig. 138, pp. 328, 371, 377, 381

Exhibition History

Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Verification Level

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