Seated Female Nude, Holding One Knee, with Sketch of a Foot

Prints and Drawings

August 1909

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

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Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Seated Female Nude, Holding One Knee, with Sketch of a Foot
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.: 1909
Medium: Reed pen and black ink on white wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated recto, lower left, in black ink: "Henri Matisse août 1909"
Dimensions: Primary support: 23.6 × 29.9 cm (9 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 31.8 × 23.5 cm (12 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Tertiary support: 38.3 × 31.4 cm (15 1/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1926.1533
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Raymond Escholier, Henri Matisse (Paris, 1937), p. 37 (ill.).
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public (New York, 1951), pp. 137 (ill.), 138, as Woman Nursing Knee; A Foot (Nu assis; pied).
Sergio Solmi, “Disegni di Matisse,” Sele Arte 1, no. 2 (Sept.–Oct. 1952), p. 54 (ill.), as Nu assis 1909.
Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse (1869– ), The Pocket Library of Great Art (Harry N. Abrams, 1953), pl. 6, as Studies of Woman Holding Knee, 1909.
Raymond Escholier, Matisse, Ce Vivant (Paris, 1956), p. 37 (ill.).
James Watrous, The Craft of Old Master Drawings (Madison, Wisc., 1957), (ill.) opp. p. 52.
Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L’Opera di Matisse: dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all’intimismo, 1904–1928, Classici dell’arte, 49 (Milan, 1971), p. 109 (ill.), cat. D5, as Nudo seduto e un piede.
A.R. Elsen, Sculpture of Matisse (New York, 1972), p. 139 (ill.).
Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Henri Matisse (Borden Publishing, 1973), n.pag. (ill.), as Seated Nude Woman, Her Hands Clasped Around Her Knees.
Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse (New York, 1973), n.p. (ill.), pl. 6, as Studies of Woman Holding Knee.
A. Izerghina, et al., trans. by R. J. Rosengrant, V. Paperno, Yu. Nemetsky, and I. Vlader, Henri Matisse: Paintings and Sculptures in Soviet Museums (Leningrad, 1978) p. 188 (ill.), as The Foot.
Pierre Schneider, Matisse (Flammarion, 1984), p. 132 (ill.), as [no title], 1909.
Jack Flam, Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869–1918 (Cornell University Press, 1986), p. 289, fig. 290, as Seated Model Clasping Her Knees, 1909.
Pierre Schneider, Matisse, new ed. (Flammarion, 2002), p. 132 (ill.), as Nu assis, jambe repliée, 1909.
“Seated Female Nude, Holding One Knee, with a Sketch of a Foot,” 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. 16, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

London, Grafton Galleries, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, Nov. 8, 1910–Jan. 15, 1911, as Drawing (no 176).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections”, June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 101, cat. 1033, as Woman Nursing Knee—A Foot.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, Nov. 13, 1951–Jan. 13, 1952; Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 5–Mar. 16, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 1–May 4, 1952, addendum to catalogue, no cat. no., as Women [sic] Nursing Knee, (1909); San Francisco Museum of Art, May 22–July 6, 1952 (Chicago only).
Los Angeles, University of California, Art Council, “Henri Matisse,” 1966, p. 144 (ill.), cat. 153.
Baltimore, Museum of Art, “Matisse as Draftsman,” 1971, p. 54 (ill.), cat. 17.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “The Sculpture of Matisse,” 1972, p. 33 (ill.), 55, cat. 81, as Seated Model Clasping Knee; traveled to Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, June 20-August 6,1972; Berkeley, Calif., University Art Museum, University of California, September 18-october 29, 1972.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Imaging the Body,” January 30–April 28, 1992.
Chicago, AIC, “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917,” March 20–June 20, 2010, p. 105, cat. 10f, cat. by Stephanie D’Alessandro

Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871-1964), Stone Ridge, NY and Washington, D. C., by Nov. 8, 1910; given to the Art Institute, 1926.

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