Reclining Nude

Prints and Drawings

c. 1920

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Reclining Nude
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.: 1915–1925
Medium: Graphite, with erasing and touches of stumping, on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Henri–Matisse"; inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "Jeune Fille sur un Canapé"
Dimensions: 26.8 × 40.5 cm (10 9/16 × 16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.708
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“Reclining Nude,” 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. 31, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

Possibly Wellesley, MA, Wellesley College Museum of Art, no cat.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Anonymous Loan Exhibition of Drawings and Illustrated Books, Nov. 1–30, 1964, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection,” June 11–September 7, 1999.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 146 and 194–195, cat. 143 (ill.).

New Gallery, New York [correspondence with Eberhard Kornfeld]; sold through Klipstein and Kornfeld, Bern, May 26, 1962, lot 782, to Robert M. Light and Company, Boston; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 19, 1962 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

Cat. 31 Reclining Nude, c. 1920

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