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Henri Matisse

Young Woman with Face Buried in Arms

1928

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Henri Matisse

Young Woman with Face Buried in Arms

1928

Physical Qualities Etching on chine collé, Sheet: 285 x 378 mm. (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.) Plate: 101 x 147 mm. (4 x 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.12.99
Matisse’s prints and drawings provided him with a library of images to be put aside for a time and reopened later with a fresh perspective. The vivid oil portrait of Matisse’s model, companion, and muse, Lydia Delectorskaya, from 1935, intensifies a pose explored casually in an earlier series of small etchings from 1929 in which a woman gazes, with dreamy disinterest, at goldfish in a bowl.
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, "Matisse: le rythme et la ligne," 24 February - 10 May 1987.

Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.

Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.

Jay Fisher, American Federation of the Arts, "Matisse as Printmaker," The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 25, 2009 - January 3, 2010 (did not travel).
Guillaud, Maurice, and Jacqueline Guillaud. Matisse: le rythme et la ligne. Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1987, plate no. 382 (published as “Jeune femme le visage enfoui dans les bras”).
"Matisse as Printmaker,' "BMA Today," Fall-Winter 2009, p. 5, ill.

Inscribed: Recto: Lower Right, 9/25 Henri Matisse

Artist

Henri Matisse

1868–1953

French, 1869-1954
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