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Nude with Chinese Background, (painting). Artist:  Seyffert, Leopold, 1887-1956, painter. Title:  Nude with Chinese Background, (painting). Other Titles:  Nude (Oriental Background), (painting). Nude with Oriental Background, (painting). Reclining Figure, (painting). Silver Screen, (painting). Dates:  1919. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  54 1/2 x 60 1/4 in. (138.5 x 153.1 cm) Inscription:  (Lower left:) Leopold Seyffert--191(9) signed Description:  Full-length portrait of a nude woman sleeping on a bed. Behind her is a background panel of several figures, who are lohans, or enlightened disciples of Buddha. Subject:  Figure female -- Nude Object -- Furniture -- Screen Ethnic -- Chinese Portrait female -- Vernon, Grace (Bobby) -- Full length Religion -- Buddhism Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90036 Accession Number: 23.6.3 Exhibitions:  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1919, (no. 175). Remarks:  The model for the painting was Grace (Bobby) Vernon, who later became Seyffert's second wife. References:  Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick, "American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection," Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, pg. 284-285. Illustration:  Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick, "American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection," Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, pg. 284. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 02960244   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 02960244 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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