About This Artwork

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Portrait of a Young Woman (Elsa Glaser), 1914

Graphite, with touches of erasing and stumping on cream wove paper
285 x 229 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "Henri Matisse"
Gift of Mrs. Tiffany Blake and Gift of Margaret and Tiffany Blake, 1964.1

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Baltimore Museum of Art, "1914: Exhibitions of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," October 6–November 15, 1964, p. 90, cat. 154.

Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, "Henri Matisse: Retrospective," January 5– February 27, 1966, pp. 147 (ill.), 197, cat. 160; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 11–April 24, 1966 and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11–June 26, 1966

The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 43 (ill.).

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse as Draughtsman," 1971, pp. 68, 69 (ill.), cat. 24, cat. by Victor Carlson.

Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, "Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23–May 14, 1972.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 168-169, cat. 81 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 178-179, cat. 82 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Museum of Art, March 10-May 16, 1986.

Stuttgart, Germany, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Themes and Variations," December 11, 1993-February 13, 1994, p. 48 (ill.), cat. 15, by Lydia Delectorskaya, et. al..

Publication History

The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 58: 1 (1964), unnumbered.

John Elderfield, The Drawings of Henri Matisse, exh. cat. (London, 1984), p. 71 (ill.), fig. 25.

Ownership History

Curt Glaser (1879-1943), Berlin, Switzerland, France, and the United States [E.V. Thaw and Company stock card]; by descent to his widow, Maria Glaser (later Mrs. Maria Ash), New York [E.V. Thaw and Company stock card]; sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1964.