Blue Vase on a Venetian Armchair

Prints and Drawings

1943

Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954

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Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Blue Vase on a Venetian Armchair
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 1943
Medium: Colored pencils on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "HM"
Dimensions: 52.5 × 40.5 cm (20 11/16 × 16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.977
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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), p. 202, cat. 149 (ill.).
“Blue Vase on a Venetian Armchair,” 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. 51, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

Paris, Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Henri Matisse: Aquarelles, Dessins, 1962, cat. 34 (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, p. 202, cat. 149 (ill.).

Probably Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris, by June 1962. Unidentified owner; sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 25, 1986, lot 420, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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