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Artist or Maker: Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925)

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Description: Femme debout italienne, bras croisés
stamped with signature and dated 'R de la Fresnaye 1911' (lower right)
black Conté crayon on paper laid down on board
13 1/4 x 10 1/8 in. (33.6 x 25.7 cm.)
Drawn in 1911

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Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Lucia Cristofanetti.
Jacques Seligman, New York.
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago.
Pauline Palmer, Chicago (by descent from the above).
B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985.

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Exhibited: New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), 1945.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism, Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection, November 2003-January 2004, p. 76, no. 63 (illustrated in color).

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Published: G. Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye, New York, 1945, p. 35, no. 6 (illustrated).
G. Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye, Catalogue raisonné, 1949, pp. 180 and 217.
G. Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye with a Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1969, p. 180, no. 217 (illustrated).

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Notes: De la Fresnaye painted several nude figure compositions in 1910-1911 which depict an Italian model named Maria Valente (Seligman, no. 67, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; no. 69, private collection; and no. 71, Philadelphia Museum of Art). The present drawing is one in a series of related studies. In 1912, under the influence of the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon, De la Fresnaye modeled a plaster sculpture, Femme italienne, based on the figure painting now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (cf. bronze cast, sold, Christie's New York, 14 November 1996, lot 280).