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JOSÉ CLEMENTE OROZCO Study for "Sleeping (The Family)."
Pencil and brush and gray wash on cream wove paper, circa 1930. 380x474 mm; 15x18 5/8 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. Ex-collection Fazzano, Cranston, Rhode Island, probably acquired from Alma Reed, New York.
The same-titled painting to which this drawing relates, now in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (accession number 41.2927), was exhibited in New York at Delphic Studios (Alma Reed's gallery) and subsequently acquired by the collector Albert Bender.
According to Orozco scholar Diane Miliotes, the current drawing is likely an undocumented, hybrid drawing by Orozco, perhaps a finished study for the painting or possibly a drawing made by Orozco to record the painting and reproduce it as a lithograph. Miliotes draws attention to similarly-handled lithographs from Orozco's New York period, late 1920s/early 1930s, such as Vaudeville in Harlem and Requiem both from 1928 (Hopkins 13 and 9). Like the currect drawing, she notes, "These feature a frame and spare, bold outlines of forms that would have been easily transferred to the zinc plates and thus provide the basis for further elaboration of the composition," (Miliotes, letter to current owner, December 26, 2011).
