%C2%A9 Succession H. Matisse %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York
The Large Nude, 1906 ?
Henri Matisseexpand_more
Lithographexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more 2010.46.1
Not on Viewexpand_more
Matisse was never a full-fledged Cubist, but like other artists, he found inspiration in the art of Paul Cézanne and heeded his example especially closely around the time of his death in 1906. Cézanne advocated the reduction of forms into simple geometric solids: cubes, spheres, and cylinders. Here in one of his earliest lithographs, Matisse has suppressed the model’s facial features and extremities, and thus her individuality, turning his image into an ideal of femininity.
Some scholars have recently challenged the date assigned to this work, linking it to Matisse’s reworking in 1913 of a painting of nude female bathers that he had begun in 1909. Either date is plausible, but neither has been verified.
Details
- Title
- The Large Nude
- Artist Life
- 1869–1954
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2010.46.1
- Provenance
- (Sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland, June 12, 2009, no. 115, to Schrank); [Harris Schrank, New York, 2009, sold to Boerner]; [C.G. Boerner, New York, 2010; sold to MIA]
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Duthuit 403
- Curator Approved
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