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Augustus John
1878-1961
Standing Female Figure
ca. 1905
Graphite pencil on card.
17 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches (45.4 x 30.2 cm)
Bequest of Belle da Costa Greene, 1950.
1950.13
Notes:
Augustus John had thirty-seven works in the 1913 Armory Show in New York, which introduced American audiences to progressive European art, although his style was indebted to the Old Masters. This standing nude appears to have been drawn quickly, and may have been a study for a painting or mural. John often made numerous drawings of a subject in rapid succession. This was one of the first twentieth-century works to enter the Morgan's collection. It belonged to the Morgan's first director, Belle da Costa Greene.
Inscription:
Signed in graphite pencil at lower left, "Johns"; numbered at right, "6".
Provenance:
Belle da Costa Greene (1883-1950), New York, from whom acquired by the Morgan.
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