Seated Nude with Arms Raised

Prints and Drawings

c. 1925

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Seated Nude with Arms Raised
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.: 1920–1930
Medium: Stumped charcoal, with erasing and touches of direct charcoal marks, on ivory wove paper, pieced
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in charcoal: "Henri Matisse"
Dimensions: 61.2 × 49.4 cm (24 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Wirt D. Walker Fund
Reference Number: 1965.243
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

John Jacobus, Henri Matisse (New York, 1973), p. 67 (ill.).
Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Henri Matisse (Borden Publishing, 1973), n.pag. (ill.).
John Elderfield, The Drawings of Henri Matisse exh. cat. (London, 1984), p. 85 (ill.), fig. 29.
“Seated Nude with Arms Raised,” 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. 36, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, “Henri Matisse: Retrospective,” January 5– February 27, 1966, pp. 150 (ill.), 151, 198, cat. 166; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 11-April 24, 1966 and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11-June 26, 1966.
Baltimore Museum of Art, “Matisse as Draughtsman,” 1971, cat. 38.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “Henri Matisse,” September 16, 1992-January 12, 1993.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Edgar Degas: Passing on the Tradition,” September 7, 1996-January 27, 1997.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Matisse in the 1930s”, October 19, 2022 - January 19, 2023.

Pierre Matisse Gallery (opened 1932), New York [Baltimore 1971]. Sold by B. C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1965.

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