Girl with a Cat

Prints and Drawings

1910

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

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Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Girl with a Cat
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.: 1910
Medium: Graphite, with traces of erasing, on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream), laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on off-white wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Henri Matisse"
Dimensions: Primary support: 27.7 × 21.7 cm (10 15/16 × 8 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 29.7 × 24 cm (11 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.); Tertiary support: 44.4 × 34 cm (17 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1926.1534
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Roger Fry, “Line as a Means of expression in Modern Art,” The Burlington Magazine 33:189 (December 1918), pp. 206, 207 (ill.).
Eduard Trier, Zeichner des XX. Jahrhunderts (Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1956), pp. 34, fig. 20; n.pag., no. 20.
Jack Flam, Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869–1918 (Cornell University Press, 1986), p. 275, fig. 277, as Marguerite with a Black Cat, 1910.
Dominique Fourcade and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, eds., Henri Matisse 1904–1917, exh. cat. (Le Centre, 1993), p. 92 (ill.), as Étude pour Marguerite au chat noir, 1910.
“Girl with a Cat,” 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. 17, 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.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modern Drawings, Feb. 16–May 10, 1944, no cat. no., as Girl with Cat, 1910.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Nineteenth Century French, American, and English Drawings, Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947, no cat.
Jacksonville, Ill., Pfeiffer Library, MacMurray College, Exhibition of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 1947, no cat.
Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles Art Council, “Henri Matisse,” 1966, p. 144, cat. 153 (ill.).
Darmstadt, Germany, Mathildenhöhe, 3. Internationale der Zeichnung: Sonderausstellung Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, Aug. 15–Nov. 11, 1970, not in cat.
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, “Henri Matisse: dessins et sculpture,” May 29–September 7, 1975, pp. 84, 86 (ill.), cat. 38; traveled to Brussels, 1975.
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, “Matisse Exposition” March 20-May 17, 1981; traveled to Le Musee National D’Art Moderne, Kyoto, May 26-July 19, 1981.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Imaging the Body,” January 30-April 28, 1992.

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

Cat. 17 Girl with a Cat, 1910

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