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Femme se déshabillant (Woman Undressing)

Maker

(artist)
1861-1944

Title

Femme se déshabillant (Woman Undressing)

Date of Production

1918-1922

Medium

graphite on wove graphing paper from a notebook

Dimensions

Height: 35.1 cm
Width: 22.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1935.SC.137

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

While Maillol is best known as a sculptor, he was also a prolific draughtsman, turning to his sketchbook again and again as a wellspring of inspiration for his sculpture. This weighty nude, sketched on what appears to be a sheet torn from a ruled ledger, is typical of his careful, deliberate working method. A reworked area on the left thigh indicates that he adjusted the pose slightly as he drew.

Provenance

Erhard Weyhe (New York); purchased there by Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), 1925 (along with G.1935.SC.180 and 187 and D.1935.SC.136); Courtauld Gift 1935

Exhibition History

Special Display - Picasso, Matisse, Maillol: The Female Model, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 24/01/2013-26/05/2013

The Sculpted Nude: Aristide Maillol and Eric Gill, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/12/2003-29/02/2004

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998 ...More

The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998

Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960 ...Less

Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998
cat. no. 72
illus. p. 132

John House, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1994
no. 99
illus. p. 216

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 137

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, graphite, signed with artist's initial in a circle: "M".

Collector's mark: none.

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