Study No. 1 for "Ballerina"
ca. 1940
Chaim Gross
American, born Austria, 1904-1991
American Art
Drawing played an integral preparatory role in the modernist sculpture of Chaim Gross, who used it to capture the poses of live models and to conceptualize his ideas for a work. This sheet served as a study for Ballerina (see illustration), featuring one of his favorite subjects—a female dancer or other performer. The drawing’s energetic hatch marks and looping scribbles anticipate the rough-hewn surface textures of the carved sculpture.
- Maker/Artist
- Gross, Chaim
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Graphite on green-grey, medium-weight, moderately textured laid paper
- Medium
- graphite, green-grey, medium-weight, moderately, textured, laid, paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 38 x 25 5/16 in. (96.5 x 64.3 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 42.418
- Credit Line
- Designated Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum, The Second Dimension: Twentieth-Century Sculptors' Drawings from The Brooklyn Museum
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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