print
- Museum number
- 1922,0708.26
- Title
- Object: Crouching nude
- Description
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Nude woman crouched face down, with arms on ground. 1920
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1920
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 393 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text in Frances Carey & Antony Griffiths, 'Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960', BMP, 1990, no.16.
Only one other print of this period bears any resemblance to this work, and that is another lithograph, 'Vorticist Figure', by the Leeds artist Jacob Kramer (1892-1962), who was a friend of the Vorticists in London and brother-in-law to William Roberts. Both compositions are strongly indebted to the draughtsmanship of Wyndham Lewis, who executed a series of female nude studies in black chalk in 1919-20. Four of these were reproduced in Lewis's portfolio 'Fifteen Drawings', published by the Ovid Press in 1919, of which 'Nude II', in black chalk and watercolour (Manchester City Art Galleries), is the closest to Wadsworth's figure.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1990/1 Sept.-Jan., BM, 'Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960', no. 16
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1922,0708.26