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Henri Matisse, Head of a Woman, 1946

The Baltimore Museum of Art: Bequest of Robert Armacost, Baltimore, in Memory of John Dorsey, BMA 2010.7. ©2011 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This 1946 drawing by Matisse, a bequest of Robert Armacost, comes from the collection of former Baltimore Sun art critic John Dorsey and is given in his memory. This wonderful drawing, part of a dispersed series of portrait variations made in 1946, becomes the latest Matisse drawing to join the collection.