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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.283
People
Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
Title
Two Studies of a Female Nude from Behind
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1906-1907
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312221

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions
35.7 x 21.6 cm (14 1/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1950, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Copyright
© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.283
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 166, fig. 49 (color), pp. 39, 107, 374
  • Ellen McBreen and Helen Burnham, Matisse in the Studio, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 2017), pp. 74, 197, fig. 54, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005

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