Untitled (Female Nude Standing)
1920
Medium
drypoint
Dimensions
Image: 258 x 76 mm Sheet: 282 x 118 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.3683
Art Historical Context
Elie Nadelman's *Untitled (Female Nude)*, created in 1920, the artist's fascination with the graceful, voluptuous female form. A Polish-American sculptor and printmaker active in early 20th-century Paris and New York, Nadelman drew inspiration from folk art, antiquity, and modernist simplification. This drypoint print, measuring just 258 x 76 mm on the and 282 x 118 mm on the sheet, his elegant linear style, where contours flow with a rhythmic poise reminiscent of classical statues reimagined through a contemporary lens. Drypoint, Nadelman's chosen medium here, involves scratching directly in...