The eight nudes in the last series, 1923-24, are all variations on the same theme; each of the eight bears the same handwritten title "Study." All of the individual prints are now identified by the words, "Nude Study," followed by a descriptive title. Returning to one of his earliest ideas for lithographs, the artist worked and reworked the female form, fascinated with the classical concept of the female body as the ideal subject for a work of art. Unlike so many of his other lithographs, no attempt was made to convey a message by means of either illustration or anecdotal caption. (Mason)
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Notes:
Title from Mason catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title from item.
Mason: M. 170; Bellows: B. 81
Additional information accompanying item: Signed below couch to right of drapery. Also signed in pencil "Bolton Brown imp," "Geo Bellows."
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Albert H. Wiggin
Notes (date):
Date from Mason catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Mason, Lauris. "The lithographs of George Bellows : a catalogue raisonné." KTO Press, 1977, Millwood, N.Y.
Bellows, Emma. "George W. Bellows : his lithographs." A. A. Knopf, 1927, New York.
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