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Girl with a Cat

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

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  • A work made of 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.

Date:

1910

Artist:

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Henri Matisse

Title

Girl with a Cat

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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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

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