1998.282: Female Nude from Behind

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1998.282

People

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

Title

Female Nude from Behind

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1909

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/312323

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 31.1 x 23.2 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1950, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection

Copyright

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

Accession Year

1998

Object Number

1998.282

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 167, fig. 150, pp. 39, 374
• Ellen McBreen, Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitive, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), p. 151, fig. 147, ill.
• Henri Matisse: Le laboratoire intérieur, exh. cat., Les Éditions Hazan and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Paris, 2016), p. 106, cat. 62, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
• Henri Matisse, le laboratoire intérieur, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 12/02/2016 - 03/06/2017

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