Henri Matisse

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Description

Henri Matisse
TÊTE DE FEMME
Signed and dated Henri Matisse Mai 47 (upper left)
Pen and ink on paper
20 by 12 1/2 in.
48.2 by 31.8cm

Provenance

Private Collection, France
Private Collection, Osaka

Exhibited

Liege, A.P.I.AW, Henri Matisse- Dessins, 1947, no. 47
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Henri Matisse-Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings Drawings Sculpture organized in collaboration with the Artist, 1948
Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum; Beverly Hills, Modern Institute of Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Washington D.C., Phillips Memorial Art Gallery; Art Institute of Chicago; Cincinnati, Modern Art Society; Baltimore Museum of Art; Dayton Art Institute; Cleveland Museum of Art; Cambridge, The Fogg Art Museum, Matisse Drawings, 1948-1949
Tobu Museum of Art; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Yamagata Museum of Art; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Matisse et ses Modèles, 2001, no. 17, illustrated p. 60

Catalogue Note

The sitter for the present work is Marie-José whom Matisse used repeatedly as his model in the 1940's.