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Prints and Drawings

1953/54

Nicolas de Staël
French, born Russia, 1903-1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Nicolas de Staël
Title: Large Nude
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.: 1954
Medium: Charcoal, with extensive stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper, mounted on canvas and stretched around a strainer
Inscriptions: Signed verso, lower right, in charcoal, on canvas: "Stael"
Dimensions: 103.5 × 149.9 cm (40 3/4 × 59 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.738
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, “Nicolas de Staël,” September 1965.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 52.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 218-219, cat. 164 (ill.).

Sold by Jacques Dubourg, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 1964; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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