Edgar Yaeger Oil on Canvas Figure Painting "Nude Study"

Item Details

A 1980 oil painting on canvas titled Nude Study by listed American artist Edgar Yaeger (1904 – 1997). The painting depicts a seated female nude, her lap draped with cloth, in a studio setting reading a book. One foot is resting on a small platform next to a yellow flowering plant. It is rendered in a painterly manner, accented with lively line work in blue. The work is signed and dated to the lower right, and a label indicating the title and the artist’s name is attached to the verso. The stretched canvas is presented unframed.

Known for his modern abstract style and his WPA murals of the Depression era, Yaeger was influenced by European modernists such as Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Giorgio de Chirico. Yaeger’s work has been exhibited at many institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, among others.

Dimensions

- light accretion across painting surface. Minor wear to canvas edges.

Item #

18CIN044-050