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A work made of brush and black ink on ivory wove paper.
© 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of brush and black ink on ivory wove paper.

Date:

July 1947

Artist:

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Henri Matisse

Title

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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.

1947

Medium

Brush and black ink on ivory wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed and dated recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "H. Matisse Juill 47"

Dimensions

52.8 × 40.5 cm (20 13/16 × 16 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Rue Winterbotham Shaw

Reference Number

1979.271

Copyright

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

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