Description & Technical information
Christopher Wood received a thorough grounding in life drawing as a young student in Paris, where he took classes at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Although the artist used several models for his figure drawings from life, the model for this drawing might be Frosca (or Froska) Munster, a married Russian emigré whom Wood met in in the spring of 1928 and who became his lover.
Date: 1928
Period: 20th century
Origin: England
Medium: Pencil on buff paper
Signature: Signed and dated Christopher Wood / 1928 at the lower right.
Dimensions: 29.2 x 48 cm (11¹/₂ x 18⁷/₈ inches)
Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 11 November 1988, lot 395
Peter Nahum, London, in 1989
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 23 June 1994, lot 131
David Bowie, London and New York.
Literature: Tom Tempest-Radford and Peter Nahum, British Art from the Twentieth Century, exhibition catalogue, London, 1989, pp.26-27, no.12.
Exhibitions: London, Peter Nahum, British Art from the Twentieth Century, 1989, no.12.
Categories: Paintings, Drawings & Prints

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