Reclining Nude

Prints and Drawings

c. 1931

Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol
French, 1861-1944

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol
Title: Reclining 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.: 1926–1936
Medium: Red Conté crayon, with touches of charcoal and stumping on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in red Conté crayon: "M" (in circle)
Dimensions: 53.8 × 78 cm (21 3/16 × 30 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of William N. Eisendrath
Reference Number: 1940.1044
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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).

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.

Mr. and Mrs. William N. Eisendrath, Jr., Glencoe, Ill., by 1932 [Chicago 1932]; given to the Art Institute, 1940.

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