Young Woman with a Veil

Prints and Drawings

1929

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Young Woman with a Veil
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1929
Medium: Graphite, with touches of erasing on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right corner, in graphite: "Henri Matisse 29"
Dimensions: 38.3 × 38 cm (15 1/8 × 15 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1988.141.29
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“Young Woman with a Veil,” in Matisse Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Stephanie D’Alessandro (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), cat. 42, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, “One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block,” 4 May-11 June 1967, cat. 78; also traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 21 September-2 November 1967.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts from Mary and Leigh Block, Feb. 13–Apr. 10, 1988, no cat.

Sold to Pierre Matisse, New York, after Feb. 28, 1959; sold to G. Cramer, Mar. 18, 1959. Sold by unidentified Parisian dealer to Leigh B. Block (1905–1987), Chicago and Santa Barbara, CA, fall 1959; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.

Cat. 42 Young Woman with a Veil, 1929

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