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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.135
People
Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
Title
Seated Female Nude
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1936
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/19181

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
50.7 x 37.9 cm (19 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, lower right: Henri Matisse 36; lower left: à John Rewald / H.M.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: lower left: 38512 / 1358; lower center: Rewald; upper right: 48 x 61 1/2; center: 17 [crossed out, encircled]
  • watermark: MBM

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Rewald; [The New Gallery, New York, New York]; Richard B. Sisson (as of 1964), New York City and Cuba, NY, bequest to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier
Copyright
© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.135
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [reproductions of Matisse drawings], Cahiers d'Art, XI, 1936, repr.
  • Agnes Humbert, Henri Matisse: Dessins, exh. cat., Fernand Hazan (Paris, 1956), pl. 23
  • Curt Seckel, Henri Matisse: Lob der Schönheit. Zeichnungen, Buchheim Verlag (Feldafing, 1956), repr.
  • Sidney Simon and Emily S. Rauh, 20th Century Master Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1963), no. 82
  • Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 67, fig. 12
  • Christian Zervos and Tristan Tzara, Henri Matisse Drawings 1936: A Facsimile Edition, George Braziller (New York, 2005), repr.
  • Henri Matisse: Le laboratoire intérieur, exh. cat., Les Éditions Hazan and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Paris, 2016), p. 216, cat. 152, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • 20th Century Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 11/06/1963 - 01/05/1964; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 02/03/1964 - 03/15/1964; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/06/1964 - 05/24/1964
  • Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965
  • Henri Matisse, le laboratoire intérieur, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 12/02/2016 - 03/06/2017

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