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

A work made of reed pen and black ink on white wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper.
© 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of reed pen and black ink on white wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper.

Date:

August 1909

Artist:

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

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

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