The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Female Model on African Stool

Female Model on African Stool

1976
(American, b. 1924)
Framed: 185 x 155 x 4 cm (72 13/16 x 61 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 182.8 x 152.4 cm (71 15/16 x 60 in.)
© Philip Pearlstein / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: not on view

Description

By cutting off the upper part of the model’s face, Philip Pearlstein breaks in a special way with the tradition of nude painting and portraiture. By not giving the viewer a counterpart who responds in one way or another to his or her gaze, Pearlstein focuses completely on the naked human body. By contemplating on his model’s body as a phenomenon devoid of any identity other than the attributes of sex and skin color, Pearlstein transforms it into a secluded world of forms, comparable to a natural landscape. The depiction comes across as objective and sober—there is no intimate tension or sexual charge.
  • (Allan Frumkin Gallery).
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    Henning, Edward B. “New Paintings by Four Artists from Britain.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 10 (December 1982): 311–323. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 322-323, fig. 20 www.jstor.org
    Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012. Reproduced: p. 74 - 75
    Hinson, Tom E. “Alex Katz’s Impala.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 314–326. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 320, fig. 20 www.jstor.org
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