Standing Female Nude with Chair

Prints and Drawings

1907

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Standing Female Nude with Chair
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.: 1907
Medium: Graphite, with stumping and erasing on cream 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: 31.3 × 23.8 cm (12 3/8 × 9 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 33.2 × 26 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Tertiary support: 38 × 30.5 cm (15 × 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.891
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Henri Matisse (Alhambra, Calif., 1973), n.p. (ill.).
Jack Flam, Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869–1918 (Cornell University Press, 1986), p. 201, fig. 198.
“Standing Female Nude with Chair,” 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. 12, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

New York, The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue, An Exhibition of Drawings, Lithographs, Water-Colors, and Etchings by M. Henri Matisse, Apr. 6–25, 1908, no cat.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection, June 10–Aug. 31, 1947, no cat.9
Chicago, Art Institute, Alfred Stieglitz, His Photographs and His Collection, Feb. 2–29, 1948, no cat
University of California Art Council and University of California Art Galleries (organizers), “Henri Matisse Retrospective,” 1966, p. 196, cat. 146; traveled to Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, January 5–February 27, 1966; Art Institute of Chicago, March 11–April 24, 1966; and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, May 11–June 26, 1966.
Baltimore Museum of Art, “Matisse as Draughtsman,” January 12–February 21, 1971, pp. 15, and 52-53 (ill.), cat. 16; traveled to San Francisco, California Palace of Legion of Honor; and Art Institute of Chicago, May 26–July 10, 1971.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, probably by late Feb. 1908; by descent to the Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O’Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.

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