Nude in Profile

Prints and Drawings

1903-04

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Nude in Profile
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.: 1903–1904
Medium: Graphite, with traces of erasing on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Henri-Matisse"
Dimensions: Primary support: 33 × 21.7 cm (13 × 8 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 35.1 × 23.6 cm (13 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.); Tertiary support: 44.4 × 34.2 cm (17 1/2 × 13 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1926.1541
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“Nude in Profile,” 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. 4, 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).
Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, An Exhibition of Original Drawings by Masters of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries and Artists of the Present Day, Jan. 9–31, 1940, no cat.
Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, “Drawings by Contemporary Artists,” May 20-June 10, 1944, n.p., cat. 31.
Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries, Henri Matisse Retrospective, Jan. 5–Feb. 27, 1966, cat. 144, as Standing Nude/Nu debout, 1906–07; Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 11–Apr. 24, 1966; and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11–June 26, 1966.

Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871-1964), Stone Ridge, NY, by Nov. 1910 [London, 1910 exh. cat.]; given to the Art Institute, 1926.

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