Madame Matisse with Her Fan

Prints and Drawings

1906

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Madame Matisse with Her Fan
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.: 1906
Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "Henri-Matisse"; inscribed, lower right, pen and brown ink: "Inv. No. 935"
Dimensions: 49.4 × 31.2 cm (19 1/2 × 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.709
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

John Elderfield, The Drawings of Henri Matisse, exh. cat. (New York, 1984), p. 37, fig. 5.
Anita Hopmans, De onbekende Van Dongen: Vroege en Fauvistische tekeningen 1895–1912, exh. cat. (Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam, 1996), p. 208 (ill.).
“Madame Matisse with Her Fan,” 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. 7, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.
Dita Amory, Ann Dumas, Isabelle Duvernois, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Vertigo of Color: Matisse Derain and the Origins of Fauvism, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023), 118 (color ill.), 183, 187.

Possibly Paris, Chez Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d’œuvres de quelques peintres du XXe siècle, May–June 1927, cat. 30, as Femme assise.
New York, Paul Rosenberg and Company, “19th and 20th Century French Drawings and Watercolors,” February 4–March 2, 1963, cat. 19.
Wellesley [MA] College Art Museum, Two Women Collect, Apr. 2–25, 1976, no cat.
Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Museum, “One Century: Wellesley Families Collect,” April 15–May 30, 1978, cat. 46.
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Twentieth Century Drawings from Massachusetts Collections, July 10–Sept. 2, 1979, exhibition brochure, no cat. no.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Modern Tradition: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors, Jan. 26–June 22, 1980, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 33.
Düsseldorf Germany, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, “Henri Matisse: Figure, Color, Space,” October 29, 2005-February 19, 2006, p. 132, cat. 44 (ill.).
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. 15, 146, and 191, cat. 140 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.
New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vertigo of Color: Matisse Derain and the Origins of Fauvism, Oct. 11, 2023–Jan. 21, 2024; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb. 25, 2024–May 27, 2024, cat. 41.

Sold by the artist to the Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, by winter 1929 [Ilda François, Paul Rosenberg and Company, to James Glisson, email, June 7, 2011 in curatorial file]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 23, 1964 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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