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Figure with Black Necklace, Seen from the Back

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: Masterworks from The Baltimore Museum of Art," exhibition circulated to: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 11 October 2013 - 12 January 2014 (NB title variation, IMA only - Matisse, Life in Color: Masterworks from The Baltimore Museum of Art); Minneapolis Institute of Art, 23 February - 18 May 2014; San Antonio Museum of Art, 15 June - 7 September 2014.

BMA, "Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.

Jay Fisher, BMA, "75 Years/75 Prints: Masterpieces from the Museum's Collection, 1914-1989," 1 April - 4 June, 1989.

Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; BMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," Dallas, January 21 - April 29, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9 - September 16, 2007; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 28, 2007- February 3, 2008, shown BMA only.

Jay Fisher, American Federation of the Arts, "Matisse as Printmaker," The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 25, 2009 - January 3, 2010; circulating to The Tampa Museum of Art, January 29, 2010 - April 10, 2010.
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.

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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