Henri Matisse
Study for “The Yellow Dress”
1929-1931
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Henri Matisse
Study for “The Yellow Dress”
1929-1931
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink on paper, Sheet: 316 × 240 mm. (12 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Mat: 20 × 15 7/8 in. (50.8 × 40.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice and Donald Levinson in Memory of their Daughter, Nancy
Object Number
2001.336
This drawing are made with the more permanent ink medium which does not allow for revision, so are more likely to be more spontaneously drawn portraits of Lisette in the familiar yellow dress with only slight reference to the interior space where she modeled.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2001; Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Birmingham, Michigan; Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York; Private Collection, Ohio
Cone wing rotation August-November 2002.
Cone wing rotation October 17, 2003-January 7, 2004.
Cone wing rotation May 2004.
Cone wing rotation August 17, 2004-January 11, 2005.
Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 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 (November 11, 2007-February 4, 2008).
Cone wing rotation, October 27, 2008-March 9, 2009.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Matisse Prints and Drawings," December 9, 2015 - July 10 2016.
Katy Rothkopf and Leslie Cozzi, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Modern Influence: Henry Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore," October 3, 2021 - January 2, 2022.
Cone wing rotation October 17, 2003-January 7, 2004.
Cone wing rotation May 2004.
Cone wing rotation August 17, 2004-January 11, 2005.
Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 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 (November 11, 2007-February 4, 2008).
Cone wing rotation, October 27, 2008-March 9, 2009.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Matisse Prints and Drawings," December 9, 2015 - July 10 2016.
Katy Rothkopf and Leslie Cozzi, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Modern Influence: Henry Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore," October 3, 2021 - January 2, 2022.
"The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 210.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.
Inscribed: lower right in black ink: "H. Matisse"
Markings: Watemark: INGRES D' ARCHES / (FRANCE); along edge
