Standing Male Nude (recto); Standing Male Nude Seen from Behind (verso)
Framed: 27 1/4 × 20 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (69.22 × 52.71 × 6.99 cm)
Timeless Master Drawings, Wildenstein,
New York, November-December 1955, no. 125, as Study of a Man, reverse side: Study
of a Man.
Degas: Loan Exhibition for the
benefit of The Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc.,
Wildenstein, New York, April 7-May 7, 1960, no. 96, as Homme Nu, double drawing.
Anatomy & Art, William Rockhill
Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO, May
8-June 5, 1960, no.41, as Standing Figure
of a Man.
Drawings: Collection of Milton McGreevy,
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts,
Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 91, as Study of a Man (Double drawing).
The Legacy of David and Ingres to
Nineteenth Century Art: A Loan Exhibition Organized by the Mount Holyoke
Friends of Art to Honor the Inauguration of The Amy M. Sacker Memorial
Lectureship, Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA,
October 12-November 13, 1966, no. 12, as Study
of a Man (double-sided academie [sic]).
Edgar Degas 1834/1984, Kunsthalle
Tübingen, West Germany, January 14-March 25, 1984, Nationalgalerie, Berlin,
April 4-May 20, 1984.
Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art,
St. Louis, September 22-December 3, 1989, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 17-March 25,
1990, unnumbered, as Recto and Verso: Studies of a Standing Male Nude.
Degas and the Nude, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 9, 2011-February 5, 2012, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, March 12-July 1, 2012, no. 17, as Nude with Arms Crossed behind Head.
Possibly by descent to Jeanne Fèvre, the artist’s niece, Nice, ca. 1919;
Private collection, Paris;
Purchased from Wildenstein by Mr. Milton (1903-1981) and Mrs. Barbara James (1905-1996) McGreevy, Mission Hills, Kansas, December 19, 1955-May 17, 1956;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.
Hôtel Drouot, Très Belles Estampes; Monotypes par Degas; Tableaux, Pastels,
Aquarelles, Gouaches, Dessins (Paris: Lahure, May 29, 1952), unpaginated.
Wildenstein, Timeless Master Drawings, exh. cat. (New
York: Wildenstein, [1955]), unpaginated.
Wildenstein, Degas: Loan Exhibition for
the benefit of The Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc., exh.
cat. (New York: Wildenstein, 1960), unpaginated.
“Anatomy & Art: May 8 to June 5, 1960,” The
Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin 3, no. 1 (1960): 16.
“Drawings: Collection of Milton McGreevy,” The
Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin, 4, no. 6 (1965): 45-46,
(repro.).
Mount Holyoke Friends of Art, The Legacy
of David and Ingres to Nineteenth Century Art, exh. cat. ([South Hadley,
MA: Dwight Art Memorial, 1966]), unpaginated.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna,
eds., Handbook of the Collections in The
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts,
Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of
the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of
Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 188, (repro.), as Study of A Man.
Götz Adriani, Edgar Degas: Pastelle,
Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, exh. cat. (Cologne: DuMont, 1984), 144, 342,
(repro.), as Akt mit hinter dem Kopf
gekreuzten Armen.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master
Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh.
cat. (St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 8, 9, 58,
(repro.).
Donald Hoffman, “Drawings tell ignored
value of collection,” The Kansas City
Star (February 25, 1990).
George T.M. Shackelford and Xavier Rey, Degas and the Nude, exh. cat. (Boston: MFA Publications, 2011), 21, 221, (repro.).
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