About This Artwork

Jules Pascin
American, born Bulgaria, 1885-1930

Seated Nude, 1926

Pen and black ink, with charcoal, watercolor, and pastel, with touches of crayon on cream wove paper
445 x 360 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Pascin"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, 1996.635

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection," December 20, 1969–February 1, 1970, n.p., cat. 121.

Chicago, Spertus Museum of Judaica, "The French Connection: Jewish Artists in the School of Paris 1900–1940, Works in Chicago Collections," October 24–December 31, 1982, n.p., cat. 55.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection," February 23–April 14, 1985, p. 112, cat. 132.

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, by 1969 [Chicago 1969]; given to the Art Institute, 1996.