About This Artwork

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Nude in Profile, 1906

Graphite, with traces of erasing on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
330 x 217 mm (primary support); 351 x 236 mm (secondary support); 444 x 342 mm (tertiary support)
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Henri-Matisse"
Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1926.1541

© 2008 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, "Drawings by Contemporary Artists," May 20-June 10, 1944, n.p., cat. 31

Ownership History

Given by Emily Crane Chadbourne (died 1972), Stone Ridge, NY and Washington, D. C., to the Art Institute, 1926.