1928.71: Two Sketches of a Nude Girl Playing a Flute

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1928.71

People

Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)

Title

Two Sketches of a Nude Girl Playing a Flute

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1905-1906

Places

Creation Place: Europe, France

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298755

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white modern laid paper

Dimensions

35.4 × 22.1 cm (13 15/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
mat: 50.8 × 35.6 cm (20 × 14 in.)
frame: 54.5 × 39.2 × 1.9 cm (21 7/16 × 15 7/16 × 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: Henri Matisse
• (not assigned): Verso, upper right corner, graphite: 14 x 20 / M 11 May (?) / 35

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kerrigan, New York, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1928.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kerrigan

Copyright

© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1928

Object Number

1928.71

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 734
• Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 851, n.p., repr.
• Victor Carlson, Matisse as a Draughtsman, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art and New York Graphic Society (Baltimore and New York, 1971), no. 9, repr.
• Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un été fauve, exh. cat., Gallimard (Paris, 2005), fig. 91
• Ellen McBreen, Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitive, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), pp. 31-35, fig. 23, ill.
• Henri Matisse: Le laboratoire intérieur, exh. cat., Les Éditions Hazan and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Paris, 2016), p. 72, cat. 24, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Matisse as a Draughtsman, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 01/01/1971 - 02/28/1971; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 03/01/1971 - 04/30/1971; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 05/01/1971 - 06/30/1971
• The Sculpture and Drawings of Henri Matisse, Tate Britain, London, 10/03/1984 - 01/06/1985
• Henri Matisse, le laboratoire intérieur, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 12/02/2016 - 03/06/2017

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