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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.76
People
Oscar Fehrer, American (Brooklyn, NY 1872 - 1958 New York, NY)
Title
Male Nude Seen from Behind
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1897
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309272

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
63.2 x 48.4 cm (24 7/8 x 19 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: charcoal, center right: Paris 1897 / OF
  • watermark: INGRES
  • inscription: l.r., graphite: 79.43.124

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Childs Gallery, Boston, MA, Sold to Vermeer Associates, Limited, 1980.
Vermeer Associates Limited, Purchased from Childs Gallery, 1980, Sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 1985.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund, Louise Haskell Daly Fund and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.76
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Description
Repairs to losses at u.l., l.r., u.r. Creased at u.r.

Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums Gallery Series, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1994), no. 12, checklist no. 27, p. 11

Exhibition History

  • Three Artists of Pleasant Valley: Robert Vonnoh, Oscar Fehrer, and Eugene Higgins, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, 06/01/1991 - 07/28/1991
  • Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995
  • Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

Verification Level

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