Head of a Woman

Prints and Drawings

1942

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Head of a Woman
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.: 1942
Medium: Black crayon on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated recto, lower left, in graphite: "H. Matisse/42"
Dimensions: 52.8 × 40.8 cm (20 13/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: David Adler Collection
Reference Number: 1950.1414
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. 2 (Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1995), pp. 1388, cat. 774 (ill.); 1445; 1461; 1467.
“Head of a Woman,” 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. 49, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, Nov. 13, 1951–Jan. 13, 1952; Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 5–Mar. 16, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 1–May 4, 1952, addendum to catalogue, no cat. no., as Head of a Girl, (1942); San Francisco Museum of Art, May 22–July 6, 1952 (probably Chicago only).
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, “Themes and Variations,” December 11, 1993–February 13, 1994.

Martin Fabiani; exchanged with Bernheim-Jeune, Apr. 1950; sold by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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