Henri Matisse
Reclining Figure with Chemise
1905
Scroll
Henri Matisse
Reclining Figure with Chemise
1905
Physical Qualities
Bronze, 5 1/2 x 11 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (14 x 30.2 x 14.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lion, Jr.
Object Number
1955.164
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1955; purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Albert Lion, Jr., 24 June 1955; from Curt Valentin Gallery, New York; Galerie Pierre, Paris, May 1930
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, "Closing Exhibition", June 8, 1955, cat. 131, ill. p. 3.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "If Wishes Could Buy", Octtober 4-November 6, 1955.
MOMA, "The Sculpture of Matisse", February 24-May 8, 1972; (the records are contradictory on whether the piece toured to Pasadena? [should be Minneapolis] and Berkeley).
Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, "Matisse in the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art", 24 August-7 October 1979.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005.
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, cat. no. 30, p. 268, ill. pp. 133, 134.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "If Wishes Could Buy", Octtober 4-November 6, 1955.
MOMA, "The Sculpture of Matisse", February 24-May 8, 1972; (the records are contradictory on whether the piece toured to Pasadena? [should be Minneapolis] and Berkeley).
Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, "Matisse in the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art", 24 August-7 October 1979.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005.
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, cat. no. 30, p. 268, ill. pp. 133, 134.
"BMA News," Feb. 1956, p. 10-15.
'Object of the Week,' "The Sun," magazine section, 13 Sep. 1959.
Albert Elsen, 'The Sculpture of Matisse,' "Art Forum," vol. VII, #2, Oct. 1968, 22f.
Albert Elsen, "The Sculpture of Matisse," (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972) 68-73
Legg, Alicia. The Sculpture of Matisse. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1972, cat. no. 18, page 18.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, "The Sculpture of Henri Matisse," (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984) cat. # 16.
Flam, Jack D. Matisse, The Man and His Art 1869-1918. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1986, page 194, fig. 189.
Ernst-Gerhard Guse, "Henri Matisse: Drawings and Sculpture," (Munich: Prestel, 1991) ill. 112.
BMA Today, Fall 2007, pp. 7-8.
Kosinski, Dorothy, Jay McKean Fisher, and Steven Nash. Matisse: Painter as Sculptor. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art: Nasher Sculpture Center; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, pages 132-134, 268, cat. no. 30.
"Matisse, Radical Invention 1913-1917," (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago), 2010, #1.1 & Fig. 1b (detail).
Inscribed: "HM 5/10" on proper right rear of base
Markings: Foundry Stamp "Cire - C. Valsuani - perdue" front base, proper right. "127" in black on bottom (2).
