Woman Leaning on Her Hands

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Modern Art

1905, cast c. 1930

Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954

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Department: Modern Art

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Woman Leaning on Her Hands
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.: Original 1905
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Signed and numbered on right foot: "HM 9/10"
Dimensions: 12.1 × 23.5 × 17.2 cm (4 3/4 × 9 1/4 × 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1992.654
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Possibly Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, exh. cat., trans. David Macey (Arts Council of Great Britain/Thames & Hudson, 1984), pp. [66], pl. 15; 145, cat. 15, as Woman Leaning on her Hands, 1905.
Christie’s New York, Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, pt. 2, sale cat. (Christie’s New York, Nov. 12, 1992), p. 36, lot 126 (ill.); insert, as Nu assis appuyé sur les mains, original version conceived 1905, cast at later date.
Margherita Andreotti, “The Joseph Winterbotham Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies20, no. 2 (1994), p. 134 (ill.), as Woman Leaning on Her Hands, executed 1905, cast 1907.
James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 16, as Woman Leaning on Her Hands.
Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté (C. Duthuit, 1997), pp. 42–43, cat. 17, no. 9; 265; 352, as Nu appuyé sur les mains/Figure portant sur les mains—Figure à la chemise retroussé—Nu à la chemise relevée/Woman Leaning on her Hands/Seated Woman Leaning on her Hands, 1905, cast c. 1930.
“Woman Leaning on Her Hands,” 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. 9, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/41/41_anchor.
Ina Ewers-Schultz, Simon Kelly, Simone Klein, Astrid Köhler, Peter Kropmanns, Ulrike Lorenz, Colin Lemoine, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Jacqueline Munck, Eva-Maria Schütz and Christian Weikop, Inspiration Matisse, exh. cat. (Prestel-Verlag, 2019), pp. 118, cat. 70 (color ill.).

Possibly Edinburgh, City Art Centre, The Sculpture and Drawings of Henri Matisse, Aug. 3–Sept. 15, 1984, cat. 15 (ill.); London, Hayward Gallery, Oct. 4, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Leeds, City Art Gallery, Jan. 18–Mar. 24, 1985 (Edinburgh and London only).
Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Inspiration Matisse, Sep. 27, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, cat. 70, as Nu Appuyé sur Les Mains.

Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin, 1902–Aug. 19, 1954), New York, 1948 [Christie’s New York, Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, pt. 2, sale cat. (Christie’s New York, Nov. 12, 1992), lot 126]; Sydney Melville Shoenberg, Sr. (Aug. 31, 1881–Nov. 25, 1975), St. Louis, by Nov. 8, 1948 [letter from Curt Valentin to Sydney M. Shoenberg, Nov. 8, 1948; photocopy in curatorial file]; Shoenberg Foundation, St. Louis [this and the following according to James Goodman Gallery inventory card; photocopy in curatorial file]; Jeffrey Loria (b. Nov. 20, 1940), by Feb. 1980; sold on consignment by James Goodman Gallery, New York, to Adler/Castillo (Rachel E. Adler), New York, from Apr. 15, 1980; sold to Pedro Pérez Lazo (Nov. 19, 1934–May 5, 2010), Caracas, Venezuela, 1980 [letter from Rachel Adler, Mar. 23, 1983; photocopy in curatorial file]; sold at Christie’s New York, lot 126, to Rachel Adler Gallery, New York, on behalf of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 12, 1992.

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