Standing Female Nude, Twisting toward Her Back

Prints and Drawings

c. 1908

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Standing Female Nude, Twisting toward Her Back
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.: 1908
Medium: Graphite, with stumping, 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: 30.9 × 23.6 cm (12 3/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 32.9 × 25.7 cm (13 × 10 1/8 in.); Tertiary support: 37.9 × 30.5 cm (14 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.894
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Oliver Larkin, “Alfred Stieglitz and ‘291,’” Magazine of Art 40, no. 5 (May 1947), p. 182 (ill.).
Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1970), p. 74 (ill.).
Centre Georges Pompidou, Henri Matisse, 1904–1917, exh. cat. (Le Centre, 1993), p. 93 (ill.), as Femme nue debout, 1910.
“Standing Female Nude, Twisting toward Her Back,” 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. 15, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

New York, Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue,9 An Exhibition of Drawings and Photographs of Paintings by Henri Matisse, Feb. 23–Mar. 8, 1910, no cat.
New York, Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue,10 An Exhibition of Sculpture—the First in America—and Recent Drawings by Henri Matisse, Mar. 14–Apr. 6, 1912.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, Apr. 17–May 9, 1920, cat. 154, as Drawing No. 2.
New York, An American Place, Beginnings and Landmarks: “291” 1905–1917, Oct. 27–Dec. 27, 1937, cat. 35, as Drawing No. 2, 1910.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: “291” and After, July 1–Nov. 1, 1944, cat. 55, as Nude Standing, 1910.
Chicago, Art Institute, Alfred Stiegltiz, His Photographs and His Collection, Feb. 2–29, 1948, no cat.
Los Angeles, University of California, Art Council, “Henri Matisse: Retrospective,” January 5– February 27, 1966, cat. 149, as Standing Nude; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 11–April 24, 1966 and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11–June 26, 1966.
Paris, Musee National d’Arte Moderne, “Henri Matisse: Dessins et Sculpture,” 1975, cat. 33.
Chicago, AIC, “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917,” March 20–June 20, 2010, pp. 69 and 71, cat. 3m, cat. by Stephanie D’Alessandro

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, probably by Feb. 23, 1910; by descent to the Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O’Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.

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