Untitled

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Though Segal is regarded for his sculptures, he also produced a large number of paintings and drawings, too. Like Untitled, works produced during the 1950s and 1960s are especially evident of his little-known interest in French modernists like Pierre Bonnard, Gustave Courbet, and Henri Matisse. In Untitled, the artist’s command of pastel and application of spare line shows a particular relationship to the simple, yet extremely elegant drawings of nude women produced by Matisse. Further, the unique interior perspective he’s created is not unlike the flat and tense interiors of Bonnard. Many of Segal’s drawings like Untitled anticipate the sculptures he would produce just a few years later. This sophisticated pastel drawing strongly foreshadows the 1970 sculpture Girl Sitting Against a Wall II, a work in the Akron Art Museum’s collection (1972.20.a-c).

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chalk pastel
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