About This Artwork

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Female Nude Lying Face-Down on a Table, 1912

Pen and black ink on tan wove paper, laid down on cream Japanese paper
240 x 315 mm (primary support); 261 x 335 mm (secondary support)
Signed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "Henri-Matisse"
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.893

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Gallery of the Photo-Secession/291, March 14–April 6, 1912.

New York, Armory of the 69th Regiment, "Armory Show," February 17–March 15, 1913, cat. 414, as drawing.

Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, "1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition," February 17–March 31, 1963, pp. 86 (ill.) and 197, cat. 414, as (1/6) Reclining Nude; traveled to New York, Armory of the 69th Regiment, April 6–28, 1963.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries," 2001, pp. 93, 96, and 191, pl. 12, as Female Nude Lying Face Down on a Table.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay, "Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle 1905–1930," October 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, p. 105 (ill.), cat. 56, as Nu féminin à plat ventre sur une table, 1912; traveled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, February 10–May 17, 2005.

Chicago, AIC, “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917,” March 20–June 20, 2010, pp. 158 and 159, cat. 17d, cat. by Stephanie D’Alessandro

Publication History

Gaston Diehl, Henri Matisse (Paris, 1954), p. 45 (ill.).

Ownership History

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, by 1912 [according to Washington DC 2001]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O'Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.