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CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979) Nude Torso.
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
Nude Torso.
Conte crayon and wash on wove paper, 1965. 1015x610 mm; 40x24 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: ex-collection of Lawrence Stephens and Dr. R. Books; Benjamin Horowitz, Los Angeles; Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, with the gallery label and ink stamps on the frame back; private Californian collection.
Exhibited: Cypress College, Cypress, CA, 1978.
Illustrated: Benjamin Horowitz, Images of Dignity: The Drawings of Charles White, The Ward Richie Press, Los Angeles, 1968, p. 105.
Charles White's nudes and other large-scale drawings from the 1960s were a major development in his work, monumental and powerful evocations of the human figure, symbolic but without overt references to the social and political troubles of the time. They were first exhibited at ACA Gallery, New York in 1965, and then at Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles in 1966. Gedeon D213.
Nude Torso.
Conte crayon and wash on wove paper, 1965. 1015x610 mm; 40x24 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: ex-collection of Lawrence Stephens and Dr. R. Books; Benjamin Horowitz, Los Angeles; Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, with the gallery label and ink stamps on the frame back; private Californian collection.
Exhibited: Cypress College, Cypress, CA, 1978.
Illustrated: Benjamin Horowitz, Images of Dignity: The Drawings of Charles White, The Ward Richie Press, Los Angeles, 1968, p. 105.
Charles White's nudes and other large-scale drawings from the 1960s were a major development in his work, monumental and powerful evocations of the human figure, symbolic but without overt references to the social and political troubles of the time. They were first exhibited at ACA Gallery, New York in 1965, and then at Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles in 1966. Gedeon D213.
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