Emil Ganso
Reclining Female Nude
c. 1953

Name: Reclining Female Nude
Brand: Emil Ganso
Price: 1800 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Reclining Female Nude Charcoal on paper, c. 1933 Signed lower right (see photo) Provenance: Weyhe Gallery, New York (Ganso's dealer 1925-1941) Joseph Mark Erdelac, Cleveland, noted collector who had a large collection of Ganso works Ganso was born in Germany in 1895. At age 14, he apprenticed to a baker and then worked his way to America when he was 17. He worked in bakeries in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Cincinnati and Akron, Ohio. By 1916, Ganso out of a job, and was living the life of a bohemian in New York City, sometimes on less than 30 cents a week.1 In 1921, Ganso painted a realistic nude on a bedsheet, and was forced by the police to remove it from an exhibition. The bedsheet with the painting was later stolen. He soon had a job baking again at $140 a month, and with time to spare for painting and study. Ganso quit baking in 1925 when a New York dealer gave him financial backing of $50 a week. Ganso prospered from his art after that. His work is in over 15 American museums, and the Print Club of Cleveland awarded him a $500 purchase prize for a wood engraving. A versatile artist, he painted a variety of subjects. (from a profile written by Clyde Singer) Museum holdings : Biblioteque National Paris Boston Museum of Fine Arts Brooklyn Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Kupferstich Cabinet in Berlin Library of Congress Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art New York Public Library Victoria and Albert Museum in London Whitney Museum of American Art. Exhibitions : (one-man) Weyhe Gallery, New York 1926 - 1946 Washington Irving Gallery, New York 1960; Retrospective Exhibitions: Whitney 1941 Brooklyn Museum 1944 William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut in1976. University of Iowa Museum of Art (now Stanely Museum of Art), 1941 and again in 1979

Creator:

Emil Ganso (1895 - 1941, German)

Creation Year:

c. 1953

Dimensions:

Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 23.5 in (59.69 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

Medium:

Graphite

Movement & Style:

American Modern

Period:

1930-1939