About This Artwork

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Madame Matisse with Her Fan, 1906

Pen and brush and black ink, over graphite on ivory wove paper
492 x 308 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "Henri-Matisse"; inscribed, lower right, pen and brown ink: "Inv. No. 935"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.709

© 2009 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Paul Rosenberg and Company, "19th and 20th Century French Drawings and Watercolors," February 4–March 2, 1963, cat. 19.

Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Museum, "One Century: Wellesley Families Collect," April 15–May 30, 1978, cat. 46.

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, June–September 1979.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1979–1980.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 33.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 15, 146, and 191, cat. 140 (ill.).

Düsseldorf Germany, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, "Henri Matisse: Figure, Color, Space," October 29, 2005-February 19, 2006, p. 132, cat. 44 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.

Publication History

John Elderfield, The Drawings of Henri Matisse, exh. cat. (New York, 1984), p. 37, fig. 5.

Ownership History

The artist to the Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, by February 1963 [invoice in curatorial file and New York 1963]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 23, 1964 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.