About This Artwork

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Girl with a Cat, c. 1910

Graphite, with traces of erasing on ivory laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card
276 x 218 mm (primary support); 297 x 240 mm (secondary support); 442 x 342 mm (tertiary support)
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Henri Matisse"
Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1926.1534

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections," June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 101, cat. 1033.

Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles Art Council, "Henri Matisse," 1966, p. 144, cat. 153 (ill.).

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse as Draftsman," 1971, p 54, cat 17 (ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "The Sculpture of Matisse," 1972, p. 33, cat. 81 (ill.).

Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, "Henri Matisse: dessins et sculpture," May 29–September 7, 1975, pp. 84, 86 (ill.), cat. 38; traveled to Brussels, 1975.

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, "Matisse Exposition" March 20-May 17, 1981; traveled to Le Musee National D'Art Moderne, Kyoto, May 26-July 19, 1981.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Imaging the Body," January 30-April 282, 1992.

Rome, Artificio Mostre, "Henri Matisse;" shown at the Musei Capitolini, Rome, September 19, 1997-January 20, 1998.

Dallas Museum of Art, "Matisse Sculpture," 2004-2005.

Publication History

Roger Fry, “Line as a Means of expression in Modern Art,” The Burlington Magazine 33:189 (December 1918), pp. 206, 207 (ill.).

Ownership History

Emily Crane Chadbourne (died 1972), Chicago and Stone Ridge, NY, by 1926; given to the Art Institute, 1926.