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Henri Matisse

Figure with Black Necklace, Seen from the Back

1905

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Henri Matisse

Figure with Black Necklace, Seen from the Back

1905

Physical Qualities Crayon transfer lithograph, Sheet: 449 x 279 mm. (17 11/16 x 11 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1958.116
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1958; Peter Detgar
Matisse: Painter as Sculptor

Matisse as Printmaker

Matisse, Life in Color: Masterworks From The Baltimore Museum of Art
Hahnloser-Ingold, Margrit. Matisse: The Graphic Work. New York: Rizzoli, 1988, p. 25, no. 9 (published as “Figure from the Back with Black Necklace”).
Bois, Yve Alain. Matisse and Picasso. Paris: Flammarion; Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 1998, ill. page 19, no. 9.
National Gallery of Art, 'Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries,' Boston, New York, and London: Bullfinch Press, 2000, p. p. 31, fig. 6.
Schaefer, Barbara and Anita Hachmann, eds. Es War Einmal In Amerika: 300 Jahre US-Amerikanische Kunst. Köln: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, 2018.
Duthuit-Matisse, Marguerite, Claude Duthuit, Françoise Garnaud. Henri Matisse, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé (Paris: C. Duthuit, 1983).

Inscribed: lower left in stone: "HM"; lower left in black ink: "22/25"

Artist

Henri Matisse

1868–1953

French, 1869-1954
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