About This Artwork

Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963

Nude, 1929

Pen and black ink, with stumped charcoal, with erasing, over graphite on white wove paper.
411 x 267 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "G Braque" (underlined) and "29"
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block, 1988.141.33R

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, The Arts Club, "Drawings 1916/1966," February 28–April 11, 1966, n.p., cat. 10 (ill.).

Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. and Mrs. Leigh Block," May 4–June 11, 1967, cat. 97 (ill.); traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 21–November 2, 1967.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block," February 2–April 14, 1968, n. p., cat. 97 (ill.).

Publication History

Francine du Plessix, “The Flawless Eye: Mary and Leigh Block,” in The Collector in America (New York, 1970), p. 108 (ill.).

Ownership History

Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, by 1966 [Chicago 1966]; given to the Art Institute, 1988.