Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Nus [collection of small nude maquettes]

Preferred Title: 
Nus [collection of small nude maquettes]
Image View: 
Nu couché à la draperie, 1926 [AM 1667 S], view from above left
Creator: 
Henri Laurens (French sculptor, 1885-1954)
Location: 
repository: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Location Note: 
Place Georges-Pompidou
GPS: 
+48.860653+2.352411
Date: 
ca. 1921-1930 (inclusive); clay casts 1967 (other)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Cubist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
figurine
Work Type 2: 
maquette (sculpture)
Classification: 
sculpture
Material: 
unglazed terra cotta (fired clay)
Technique: 
modeling (forming)
Measurements: 
47 cm (height, Nu au bras levé) x 20 cm (width, Nu au bras levé) x 15.5 cm (depth, Nu au bras levé)
Description: 
A series of small studies of female nudes, executed in terra cotta (fired but unglazed clay) from a poured mold. The clay castings (done in 1967, after Laurens death) were based on original plaster maquettes. Laurens returned to sculpture in the round in 1919. After WWI, Laurens rejoined his painter friends (including Braque and Picasso) at the Galerie Simon, which was reopened by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler on his return from exile in Switzerland. Until the mid-1920s Laurens continued to work in a Cubist manner, gradually toning it down. He abandoned the strict geometry of his still-lifes and devoted himself almost exclusively to the female figure. These figures were all donated to the museum by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier: 
7A1-LAUH-NM-F03
Rights: 
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