Art, literature & historyTango
1914/15
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown watercolor, over graphite, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 31 × 21 cm (12 1/4 × 8 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1982.420
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Tango — Elie Nadelman. 1914/15.
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown watercolor, over graphite, on cream wove paper. Dimensions: 31 × 21 cm (12 1/4 × 8 5/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
An American sculptor of Polish birth, Elie Nadelman lived in Paris between 1904 and 1914 and was closely involved with the avant-garde. He immigrated to the United States at the outbreak of Word War I, setting up a studio in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, where he worked for the rest of his life.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.