Henri Matisse
Upside Down Nude, near a Louis XV Table
1929
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Henri Matisse
Upside Down Nude, near a Louis XV Table
1929
Physical Qualities
Crayon transfer lithograph, Sheet: 660 × 505 mm. (26 × 19 7/8 in.)
Image: 563 × 460 mm. (22 3/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.316
This transfer lithograph made between 1926 and 1929 carries the approach seen in the earlier Arabesque print even further. On a much larger scale, odalisques now appear as playful contortionists closely cropped by the edges of the paper and visually constricted within tightly spaced interiors. The arabesque decoration heightens the sense of compressed space. In this almost exaggerated scale, the broad swatches of shading do not conform to the drawn contours of the figures and decoration. Unlike his tonal lithographs where shading is more defined, here it is only lightly suggested.
