Pair of Original Robert Knipschild Nudes
Item Details
A pair of original figure studies by well-listed Cincinnati artist Robert Knipschild (1927-2004). ‘Robert Knipschild was born in 1927, in Freeport, Illinois. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, and at Cranbrook Academy of Art were he worked under Zoltan Sepeshy. In 1950, at the age of twenty-three, his work was selected for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s widely acclaimed exhibition “American Painting Today.” Since that time he has received wide recognition with over seventy-five one-man shows and several prizes in important competitive exhibitions. Knipschild’s work has been exhibited at the Boston Museum; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum, the Corcoran; De Young Museum, San Francisco; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum and Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Knipschild’s work has been included in important surveys of American Art including the Annuals of the Whitney Museum, the Carnegie Institute, the Walker Art Center, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Butler Museum, and the Kansas City Museum. This lot features two works that are both exemplary of the artist’s profoundly stirring oeuvre. The artist has described two nude female figures. Either drawing is signed to the lower right and dated; the smaller ’94, and the larger ’88. The smaller drawing is executed on Arches 88, the larger on mat board. Both drawings come to you unframed and awaiting your choice of presentation.
Condition
- the smaller drawing has toned slightly.
Dimensions
smaller drawing: 11.25"w x 15.25"h
Item #
14CIN300-084
