
Art Institute of Chicago
Reclining Nude
Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol · c. 1931
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mr. and Mrs. William N. Eisendrath, Jr., Glencoe, Ill., by 1932 [Chicago 1932]; given to the Art Institute, 1940.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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.
Literature
Published references
- 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).
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