Reclining Female Nude

Details

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Reclining Female Nude
signed, inscribed and dated 'Duncan Grant/Paris 1906' (lower right)
pencil
8¾ x 11½ in. (22.2 x 29.2 cm.)

Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Duncan Grant: a retrospective, May - June 1959, no. 85.

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Lot Essay

This life drawing was made at La Palette, Jacques-Emile Blanche's school in Paris which Grant attended in 1906-7.
We are very grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in cataloguing the present lot.

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