Elie Nadelman
Seated Female Nude
1914
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Elie Nadelman
Seated Female Nude
1914
Physical Qualities
Bronze, onyx, Overall (Bronze figure): 16 5/8 × 8 1/2 × 6 1/4 in. (42.2 × 21.6 × 15.9 cm.)
Base: 8 × 5 3/4 × 5 in. (20.3 × 14.6 × 12.7 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.397
Nadelman aimed to create sculpture in which "the classical and the modern live side by side." The streamlined elegance and smooth machine finish of his Seated Female Nude are emblematic of modernity, while the nude's demure gesture evokes the classical pose of the Medici Venus. The self-contained figure, who appears somewhat like an ornament, anticipates the decorative tendencies of the 1920s.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone (1870–1949) by purchase, Baltimore, MD, 1949; Viola M. Nadelman (1878-1962), New York, NY, 1949 wife of the artist
The Persistent Figure in Modern Sculpture
A New American Sculpture: Gaston LAchaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach
Cone Wing Rotations 2021
Cone Wing Rotations 2022
"The Baltimore Museum of Art, A Picture Book," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, p. 77.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection," Baltimore: BMA, 1955, p. 47, no. 164.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection, Revised Edition," Baltimore: BMA, 1967, p. 71 no. 153.
Lincoln Kirstein, "Elie Nadelman," New York: The Eakins Press, 1973, no. 115, p. 298.
Barbara Haskell, "Elie Nadelman Sculptor of Modern Life," New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, Harry N. Abrams, 2003, p. 76, fig. 84.
Lincoln Kirstein, "Elie Nadelman," New York: The Eakins Press, 1973, no. 115, p. 298.
