Peter Takal

Reclining Nude

1963–1964

A person lies on their back with an arm across their chest in a sparse room.
A person lies on their back with an arm across their chest in a sparse room.

Peter Takal, Reclining Nude, 1963–1964. Lithograph, sheet: 22 3/8 × 30 1/16 in. (56.8 × 76.4 cm) Image: 19 × 28 in. (48.3 × 71.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 67.49.3

Recto

Not on view

Date
1963–1964

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 22 3/8 × 30 1/16 in. (56.8 × 76.4 cm) Image: 19 × 28 in. (48.3 × 71.1 cm)

Accession number
67.49.3

Edition
8/20 | 9 Tamarind prints, APs, TPs

Publication
Printed by Heu Tyler; published by Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.

Credit line
Gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/5647

Part of a series:
Of Nature, Of Man
20 works

Delicate pen sketch of leafless trees above a rippling water reflection with sparse orange accents.
Delicate pencil drawing of a tall stem with cascading leaves and small flowers.
Detailed fine-line sketch of tangled vertical stems and abstract reflections suggesting plants and water.
Large cream sheet with small handwritten paragraph centered and a small signature mark lower left.
Four loose pencil sketches of small birds perched or resting, drawn with simple flowing lines.
A faint pencil sketch of a woman in a flowing dress viewed in profile.
A vase of wildflowers sits on a windowsill with an open view of the landscape.
A delicate sketch shows the back of a woman's head with hair in a loose bun.
Nude person curled forward on bed with hair falling over face.
Delicate ink drawing of swirling clouds drifting toward a tall textured cliff on the right.


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