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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
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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

Verification Level

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