Lot 168
Sir John Everett Millais, P.R.A. (English, 1829-1896), "Reclining Female Nude" (recto) and "Standing Male Nude" (verso), two life studies, c. 1845, black, brown and white chalk on buff-colored wove paper, signed with given-name initials J[ohn] E[verett] at right center on male image, and later inscribed with the artist's full name on repair tape, showing at upper left on the male figure; sides of sheet irregularly trimmed, but averaging 17 3/8 in. x 12 1/4 in. between deckled top and bottom edges Provenance: William Charles Landseer, by 1847; Christie's London, 1966; James R. Lamantia, Jr., New Orleans and New York. Note: The two spectacular nude studies on this two-sided sheet were drawn when Millais was only sixteen: by the time he was seventeen this and four of his other life-class drawings had already been assembled into a small collection, as recorded on a note attached to one of the group ("set by Wm. Chas. Landseer, March 1847"). The set was sold intact at Christie's in 1966: one of the five sheets was acquired by Shepherd Gallery Associates in New York, and published in their English 19th Century catalogue of 1983 (no. 60, the source of the citation above); another was acquired by St. Jude Gallery, London, and published by Edward Lucie-Smith, Life Class, 1989, p. 20. Prof. Malcolm Warner, Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, wrote to James Lamantia in 1999
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