'Standing Female Nude', A Pearwood Female Figure

Details

Elie Nadelman (1885-1946)
'Standing Female Nude', A Pearwood Female Figure
15in. (38cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Jerome Forman, Chicago, Illinois
B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 1976

Literature

L. Kirstein, Elie Nadelman, New York, 1973, p. 295, cat. no. 85
A.T. Spear, "The Multiple Styles of Elie Nadelman", Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, Oberlin College, 1973-74, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 41-42, fig. 9

Exhibited

Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute, Chicago Collects - Selections from the Collection of Dr. Eugene A. Solow, May 3-August 21, 1988, no. 38

Lot Essay

According to Athena Spear, these figures, "are the most extreme examples of Nadelman's reduction of the human head". This type of fluid tubular nude (a plaster of which was included in the 1909 Druet exhibition) was abandoned by the artist for a more cubist style. Only three examples of this "Pea-Headed" nude are known.