About This Artwork
Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954
Girl at a Table1944
Pen and black ink on ivory wove paper
563 x 764 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "H. Matisse / 4/44"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, 1992.252
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection," December 20, 1969–February 1, 1970, cat. 110.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection," February 23-April 14, 1985, pp. 84 and 111, cat. 106, fig. 80.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "An Irrational Act: Gifts of Surrealist Works on Paper from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro," December 15, 1992-April 18, 1993.
Ownership History
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro, Chicago, by 1969 [Chicago 1969]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.