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Study for “The Yellow Dress”

Henri Matisse

Study for “The Yellow Dress”

1928-1930

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Henri Matisse

Study for “The Yellow Dress”

1928-1930

Physical Qualities Graphite on paper, Sheet: 332 × 258 mm. (13 1/16 × 10 3/16 in.) Mat: 18 × 14 in. (45.7 × 35.6 cm.)
Credit Line Marguerite Matisse Duthuit Collection
Object Number 2009.11
In the final group of studies, executed with notable hatch marks and erasures, the artist is less concerned with capturing the character of the model than with situating the model firmly in three-dimensional space. In the final image of the group, Matisse has arrived at the full-length, frontal pose in the finished painting.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2009; Claude Duthuit, France
New Arrivals: Matisse Prints & Drawings

A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore
Bois, Yve-Alain, ed. Matisse in the Barnes Foundation, vol. 1. Philadelphia: Barnes Foundation, 2015, p. 113, fig. 20.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.

Markings: WM: BFK RIVES, bottom center

Artist

Henri Matisse

1868–1953

French, 1869-1954
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