Seated Woman; Legs; Girls
1954
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brush and black ink with brown, gray and black wash
Dimensions
overall: 48.2 x 21.1 cm (19 x 8 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1958.8.4
Art Historical Context
**Seated Woman; Legs; Girls** by Cock Gent, created in 1954, visitors into the intimate world of postwar figure studies. This delicate drawing, housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection captures multiple vignettes—a seated woman, isolated legs, and girls—in narrow vertical format measuring 48.2 x 21.1 cm. Van Gent, a Dutch artist for his expressive line work, employs brush and black ink heightened with brown, gray, and black washes, a technique that lends fluid depth and subtle tonal modeling reminiscent of traditional ink wash painting but infused with mid-20th-century mode...