Red Nude on Black Ground
1986
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 105.5 × 79.2 cm (41 9/16 × 31 3/16 in.) sheet: 105.5 × 79.2 cm (41 9/16 × 31 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Maria and Conrad Janis
Accession Number
2023.160.10
Art Historical Context
George Segal's *Red Nude on Black* (1986) is a striking color screenprint that captures the artist's lifelong fascination with the human form. Renowned for his life-size plaster sculptures of everyday figures rooted in American Pop Art and Realism, Segal here translates his signature style into two dimensions. The bold red nude silhouette against a stark black background evokes a sense of isolation and introspection, echoing themes from his sculptural tableaux of urban life in mid-20th-century America. Created as a screenprint on smooth wove paper—measuring 105.5 × 79.2 cm—this medium allowed...