Standing Female Nude Seen from the Back

Prints and Drawings

1900/01

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

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Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Standing Female Nude Seen from the 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.: 1900–1901
Medium: Charcoal, with touches of stumping, on grayish-cream wove paper, fixed, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on buff wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite; "Henri-Matisse"
Dimensions: Primary support: 33 × 21.4 cm (13 × 8 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 35 × 23.3 cm (13 13/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Tertiary support: 42 × 30 cm (16 9/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.890
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“Standing Female Nude Seen from the 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. 1, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

Possibly New York, 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.14
Possibly New York, Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue,15 An Exhibition of Drawings and Photographs of Paintings by Henri Matisse, Feb. 23–Mar. 8, 1910, no cat.16
Possibly New York, Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue,17 An Exhibition of Sculpture—the First in America—and Recent Drawings by Henri Matisse, Mar. 14–Apr. 6, 1912.18
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, Apr. 17–May 9, 1920, cat. 155, as Drawing No. 3.19
Philadelphia Museum of Art, History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: “291” and After, July 1–Nov. 1, 1944, cat. 54, as Nude Standing, Back, 1910.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chalk and Chisel: Sculptors’ Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 12, 1985–Dec. 12, 1985, no cat. no.20
Art Institute of Chicago, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917, Mar. 20–June 20, 2010, fig. 4c, as Standing Female Nude Seen from the Back, 1900/01; New York, Museum of Modern Art, July 18–Oct. 11, 2010.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, probably by late Feb. 1908–July 13, 1946; by descent to the Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O’Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.

Cat. 1 Standing Female Nude Seen from the Back, 1900/01

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