Three Nudes
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View on museum website →Medium
charcoal
Dimensions
image: 60.3 x 51.4 cm (23 3/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Anne and Jacques Baruch Collection
Accession Number
2002.50.59
Art Historical Context
**Three Nudes** by František Drtikol, created in 1930, is a striking charcoal drawing measuring 60.3 x 51.4 cm, now housed in the National Gallery of Art as part of the Anne and Jacques Baruch Collection. This work captures the Czech artist's shift from his renowned photographic career—where he pioneered symbolic and Art Deco-infused nudes—to more intimate drawing techniques in the interwar period. Drtikol, active in the vibrant cultural scene of 1920s-1930s Czechoslovakia, often explored the human form as a vessel for mystical and ethereal expression, blending realism with abstraction. Rende...