20. John Singer Sargent Studies of a Male Nude, c. 1921-1925 Charcoal on paper 18 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Studies of a Male Nude, c. 1921-1925
Charcoal on paper
18 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches

Ex-collections:

The artist
Emily Sargent and Violet Sargent Ormond, until 1930
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1930
Private collection, until the present

From 1890 to 1925, Sargent worked on a series of mural projects at the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. He produced hundreds of figure studies, many of which were never incorporated into the final program design. These drawings remained with the artist until his death and were later given by his family to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard as well as to other public institutions. This drawing belongs to studies done for the Museum of Fine Arts.

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