About This Artwork
Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol
French, 1861-1944
Reclining Nudec. 1931
Red Conté crayon, with touches of charcoal and stumping on ivory laid paper
538 x 780 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in red Conté crayon: "M" (in circle)
Gift of William N. Eisendrath, 1940.1044
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Pierre Matisse, 1932.
Chicago, Arts Club, "Recent Drawings by Aristide Maillol," 1932, cat. 14.
Chicago, Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Sculptors Privately Owned by Chicagoans," May 10-30, 1932, cat. 23.
Chicago, Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago," November 4-25, 1938, cat. 73, as Nude.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Modern Drawings" 1944, pp. 63 and 93 (ill.).
New York, Buchholz Gallery, "Aristide Maillol," 1945, cat. 37.
Buffalo, N.Y., Albright Art Gallery, "Arsitide Maillol," 1945, p. 103, cat. 56 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 20, cat. 33,pl. XXVII, cat. by Carl O. Schneiwind.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 148.
Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, "Nude in Art," 1964, cat. 74.
New York, American Federation of Arts, "19th & 20th Century European Drawings," July 1965-July 1966, cat. 33; traveled to Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art.
Publication History
Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 316-317, no. 158, (ill.).
Regina Schoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings (New York, 1950), p. 234, (ill.).
P.J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings: A Guide to a Better Understanding of Modern Draughtsmanship (New York, 1954), p. 83, (ill.)
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 3G12.
Drawing from Life, third ed. (Wadsworth/Thomson Learning).
Patrick Maynard, Drawing Distinctions: The Varieties of Graphic Expression (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005).
Ownership History
Mr. and Mrs. William N. Eisendrath, Jr., Glencoe, Ill., by 1932 [Chicago 1932]; given to the Art Institute, 1940.
