Henri Matisse
Young Woman with Face Buried in Arms
1928
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Henri Matisse
Young Woman with Face Buried in Arms
1928
Physical Qualities
Etching on chine collé, Sheet: 285 x 378 mm. (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)
Plate: 101 x 147 mm. (4 x 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.99
Matisse’s prints and drawings provided him with a library of images to be put aside for a time and reopened later with a fresh perspective. The vivid oil portrait of Matisse’s model, companion, and muse, Lydia Delectorskaya, from 1935, intensifies a pose explored casually in an earlier series of small etchings from 1929 in which a woman gazes, with dreamy disinterest, at goldfish in a bowl.
Matisse as Printmaker
Guillaud, Maurice, and Jacqueline Guillaud. Matisse: le rythme et la ligne. Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1987, plate no. 382 (published as “Jeune femme le visage enfoui dans les bras”).
"Matisse as Printmaker,' "BMA Today," Fall-Winter 2009, p. 5, ill.
Inscribed: Recto: Lower Right, 9/25 Henri Matisse
