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Akt auf rotem Stuhl (Nude on Red Chair)

1966

Paul Wunderlich

Associated Names

Paul Wunderlich

Artist, German, 1927 - 2010

Atelier Desjobert

Printer

This is a drawing of a figure on a red chair. The figure is depicted upside down on the chair. The figure is intricately lined, creating a mesh-like texture, against a minimalist background with faint geometrical outlines. The red chair contrasts with the monochrome lines of the figure. The drawing uses precise lines and a grayscale palette, with red accentuating the scene's dynamism.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in red and black on Rives BFK wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Lasky Charitable Lead Trust, 2004)
Dimensions

image: 61.6 × 45.56 cm (24 1/4 × 17 15/16 in.)
sheet: 64.93 × 50.17 cm (25 9/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.3292
Catalogue Raisonné

Riediger 1983, no. 276

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Moses Lasky, San Francisco, California; Lasky Charitable Lead Trust, New York, 2002; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1983

Riediger, Carsten. Paul Wunderlich – Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, 1948 bis 1982: Catalogue raisonné. Offenbach am Main, Germany: Volker Huber, 1983, p. 163, no. 276.

Inscriptions

lower right on stone (reversed): Paul Wunderlich; lower left in graphite: e.a.; lower right in graphite: Wunderlich

Watermarks

BFK Rives

Wikidata ID

Q77010190

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