Study for Anemones and Woman (Study for “Odalisque, Harmony in Blue”)

Prints and Drawings

1937

Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954

In this study, the pattern of flowers on the page merges with that of the woman on the right. Matisse drew a flower over her mouth and her midsection, suggesting feminine fertility and erotic sensuality. The pewter vase was a favorite prop of Matisse’s, as it appears repeatedly in his works.

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Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Study for Anemones and Woman (Study for “Odalisque, Harmony in Blue”)
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.: Made 1937
Medium: Pen and black ink on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "Henri Matisse 37"
Dimensions: 56.5 × 45.3 cm (22 1/4 × 17 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.976
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

E. Tériade, “Matisse Speaks,” Art News Annual 50, 7 (Nov. 1951), p. 67 (ill.).
Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings: A Guide to a Better Understanding of Modern Draughtsmanship (Knopf, 1954), p. 77, pl. 69.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 146 and 198–199, cat. 147 (cover ill.), as Anemones and Woman, study for Harmony in Blue.
“Study for Anemones and Woman (Study for “Odalisque, Harmony in Blue”),” 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. 44, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Eighteenth International Exhibition: Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes, Mar. 23–May 14, 1939, cat. 48 (ill.).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, 1948, cat. 137.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects 20th Century, Oct. 3–Nov. 17, 1963, p. 24.
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 198–199, cat. 147 (cover ill.), as Anemones and Woman, study for Harmony in Blue.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection”, March 15 - June 15, 2014.

The artist to Williamina Meyer de Schauensee (née Williamina Wemyss Wentz, 1905–1989), Devon, Penn., 1948; by descent to her estate [acc. New York 1994 auct. cat.]; European private collection; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, May 12, 1994, lot 311, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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