About This Artwork

Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954

Seated Nude, 1925–29

Bronze
31 x 31 x 14 in. (78.7 x 78.7 x 35.6 cm)
Signed on base: "HM 8"
Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund, 1958.16

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Speyer, A. James, “Twentieth Century European Painting and Sculpture,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 224 (ill.), fig. 3.

Duthuit, Claude, Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté (Paris, 1997), pp. 182 (ill.), 83 (ill.), 184–85 (ill.), cat. 64, as Grand Nu assis; Grand Nu assis, bras levés; Large Seated Nude; Nude Seated with Hands Clasped behind Head.

Ownership History

Family of the artist, Paris [Duthuit 1997]. Heinz Berggruen, Paris [Duthuit 1997]. Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson), New York, by January 1958 [letter of January 7, 1958 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, February 1958.