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Reclining Male Nude

A work made of brown conté crayon, with stumping and touches of erasing on buff wove paper.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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  • A work made of brown conté crayon, with stumping and touches of erasing on buff wove paper.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

Charles Despiau
French, 1874-1946

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Charles Despiau

Title

Reclining Male 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.

1894–1946

Medium

Brown Conté crayon, with stumping and touches of erasing on buff wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "C. Despiau"

Dimensions

23.2 × 36.3 cm (9 3/16 × 14 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Henry G. Sundheim, Jr.

Reference Number

1958.545

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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