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Reclining Male Nude

Reclining Male Nude, 1942

  • Paul Cadmus, American, 1904-1999

Pen and black ink on cream laid paper

  • Sheet: 9 9/16 × 15 9/16 inches (24.3 × 39.5 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton

73.74

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Signed and dated, in pen and black ink, lower right: Cadmus 1942

Watermark, lower right: [palm of upraised right hand, a four leaf/leg cross/flower rises from the middle finger]

Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton

1973-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Paul Cadmus, Reclining Male Nude, 1942, pen and black ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton, 73.74.

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