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Large Nude

A work made of charcoal, with extensive stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper, mounted on canvas and stretched around a strainer.
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  • A work made of charcoal, with extensive stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper, mounted on canvas and stretched around a strainer.

Date:

1953/54

Artist:

Nicolas de Staël
French, born Russia, 1903-1955

About this artwork

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

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