Portrait of Elsa Glaser

Prints and Drawings

1914

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Portrait of Elsa Glaser
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.: 1914
Medium: Graphite, with touches of erasing and stumping, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated recto, lower left, in graphite: "Henri-Matisse 1914"
Dimensions: 28.5 × 22.9 cm (11 1/4 × 9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Reference Number: 1964.1
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Paul Westheim, “Gezeichnet oder geknipst?,” Das Kunstblatt 14 (1930), p. 50 (ill.), as Zeichnung von Henri Matisse, 1914.
The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 58: 1 (1964), unnumbered.
Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Henri Matisse (Borden Publishing, 1973), n.pag. (ill.), as Portrait of a Young Woman—Elsa Glaser.
Barbara Copeland Buenger, “Max Beckmann’s Artistic Sources: The Artist’s Relation to Older and Modern Traditions,” (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1979), pp. 204–05; 377, no. 121; 441, fig. 121, as Portrait of Elsa Glaser, 1914.
John Elderfield, The Drawings of Henri Matisse, exh. cat. (London, 1984), p. 71 (ill.), fig. 25.
Andreas Strobl, Curt Glaser: Kunsthistoriker, Kunstkritiker, Sammler: Eine Deutsch-Jüdische Biographie (Böhlau Verlag, 2006), fig. 6.
“Portrait of Elsa Glaser,” 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. 19, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

Probably Berlin, Reckendorfhaus, Die Kunstblatt-Ausstellung: Gezeichnet oder geknipst?, Feb. 1930, no cat.; Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Apr. 1930; Cologne, Kunstgewerbe-Museum, May 1930; Wiesbaden, Nassauischen Kunstverein, June 20–July 10, 1930.
Baltimore Museum of Art, “1914: Exhibitions of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture,” October 6–November 15, 1964, p. 90, cat. 154.
Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, “Henri Matisse: Retrospective,” January 5– February 27, 1966, pp. 147 (ill.), 197, cat. 160; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 11–April 24, 1966 and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11–June 26, 1966
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 43 (ill.).
Baltimore Museum of Art, “Matisse as Draughtsman,” 1971, pp. 68, 69 (ill.), cat. 24, cat. by Victor Carlson.
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, “Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23–May 14, 1972.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 168-169, cat. 81 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 178-179, cat. 82 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Museum of Art, March 10-May 16, 1986.
Stuttgart, Germany, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, “Themes and Variations,” December 11, 1993-February 13, 1994, p. 48 (ill.), cat. 15, by Lydia Delectorskaya, et. al.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Matisse in the 1930s”, October 19, 2022 - January 19, 2023.

The artist to Curt Glaser (1879-1943), Berlin, Switzerland, Italy, and New York, 1914 [E.V. Thaw and Company stock card]; by descent to his wife, Maria Glaser (née Maria Milch, 1901-1981; later Mrs. Maria Ash), New York [E.V. Thaw and Company stock card]; sold to Thomas Grange, London and E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, Dec. 11, 1963; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.

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