Nude on Yellow Drape

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Artist Philip Pearlstein (American, born 1924)

Title Nude on Yellow Drape

Date 1966

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 40 1/8 × 48 × 1 5/8 in. (101.9 × 121.9 × 4.1 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 69.114

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Philip Pearlstein, considered the most important figure in the revival of representational painting during the 1960s, is particularly known for his renderings of the female nude. Although he initially worked in an Abstract Expressionist style, a visit to Italy in 1958 on a Fulbright Travel Grant awakened Pearlstein’s interest in traditional figurative painting. His images of nudes are characterized by unusual perspectives, radical cropping, and decorative background patterning. These devices call attention to the artificiality of the studio nude in Western painting by transforming the nude figure into an abstract form.

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"Nude on Yellow Drape | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=69.114