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Identification and Creation

Object Number
44.1965
People
Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
Title
Standing Nude
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Ne debout [Nu de fillete]
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1906, cast 1951
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226633

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
with base: 51.5 x 13.5 x 18.5 cm (20 1/4 x 5 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
without base: 47.6 x 12.5 x 17 cm (18 3/4 x 4 15/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
base: 4 x 13.5 x 18.5 cm (1 9/16 x 5 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: cast on verso: H.M.
  • inscription: inscribed on base: "c. valsuani cire perdu {r.n)."

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from the Collection of Edouard Sandoz
Copyright
© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object Number
44.1965
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), pp. 8, 12, cat. 85
  • Heinz Widauer and Claudine Grammont, ed., Matisse and the Fauves, exh. cat., Albertina and Wienand Verlag (Vienna, Cologne, 2013), p. 276, fig. 5, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
  • The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001
  • Matisse in the Studio, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/09/2017 - 07/09/2017

Verification Level

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