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Reclining Male Nude

Isamu Noguchi

Artwork Details

Reclining Male Nude
1930
Isamu Noguchi
brush and ink over black crayon on off-white laid paper
17 ½ in x 23 ⅛ in (44.45 cm x 58.74 cm);26 1/16 in x 32 1/16 in (66.2 cm x 81.44 cm);17 ½ in x 23 ⅛ in (44.45 cm x 58.74 cm)
Museum Purchase
1948/1.302

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Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930
May 18, 2013 – September 1, 2013
Isamu Noguchi
United States, 1904–1988
Reclining Male Nude
1930
Ink and black crayon on paper
Museum purchase, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1948/1.302
While most of Noguchi’s drawings from this period were done with crayons and pens, he also tried his hand at using ink and brush, the traditional tools of East Asian painting and calligraphy. Unlike in the later Peking Drawings, here he uses ink and crayon in a traditional Western manner, creating areas of shading that give his figures a sense of three-dimensional volume.

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