Nude (recto); Reclining Nude (verso)

Prints and Drawings

1929

Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Georges Braque
Title: Nude (recto); Reclining Nude (verso)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1929
Medium: Pen and black ink, with stumped charcoal, with erasing (recto), and pen and black ink over charcoal and graphite, with stumping and erasing (verso), over graphite on white wove paper.
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "G Braque" (underlined) and "29"
Dimensions: 41.1 × 26.7 cm (16 3/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1988.141.33
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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

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.).

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

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