Nude with Drapery | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1998.274
People: Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German (Duisburg, Germany 1881 - 1919 Berlin, Germany)
Title: Nude with Drapery
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1912
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/312350

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on brown laid paper

Dimensions

64 x 44.2 cm (25 3/16 x 17 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r. in graphite: W. Lehmbruck / 1912

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, New York], sold to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1950, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Accession Year: 1998
Object Number: 1998.274
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Robert Taylor, "Venice Observed, Show in Dramatic Fogg Display", The Boston Herald (May 13, 1956), p. 19, p. 19
Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 140, pp. 371, 374, 381

Exhibition History

[Benefit exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival], Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 05/08/1956 - 05/29/1956

Verification Level

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