Reclining Female Nude with Raised Knee

Prints and Drawings

1923/24

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Reclining Female Nude with Raised Knee
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.: 1923–1924
Medium: Graphite, with erasing on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Henri Matisse"
Dimensions: 26.7 × 37.8 cm (10 9/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Reference Number: 1952.20
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), p. 1216, cat. 627 (ill.); 1442; 1460; 1465.
“Reclining Female Nude with a Raised Knee,” 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. 35, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

Sold by the artist to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Oct. 21, 1924; sold to Léa Bondi (later Léa Bondi Jaray, 1880–1968), Vienna, Sept. 11, 1929. Sold by E. Weyhe, New York, to Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, Nov. 19, 1930 [copy of invoice in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1952.

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