Boats

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Henri Matisse

Title

Boats

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.

1905

Medium

Pen and black ink on grayish-cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on buff wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto lower right, along edge of primary support, in graphite: “Henri Matisse”

Dimensions

Primary support: 31 × 19.4 cm (12 1/4 × 7 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 32.2 × 21.5 cm (12 11/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Tertiary support: 38.5 × 30.4 cm (15 3/16 × 12 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland

Reference Number

1968.83

Copyright

© 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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