Untitled (Study for Blue Nude), ca. 1952

  • Henri Matisse, French, 1869-1954

Graphite pencil on off-white wove paper

  • Sheet: 10 5/8 × 8 1/4 inches (27 × 21 cm)
  • 20 7/16 × 16 1/2 × 1 5/16 inches (51.9 × 41.9 × 3.3 cm)

Gift of John S. Newberry

60.31

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed in pencil, lower left: HM

John S. Newberry

1960-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Munthe, Nellie. Meet Matisse (Meet the Artist). London, 1983. Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. Exh. cat., the Museum of Modern Art. London, 2014, pp. 204, 290, fig. 108c.

Henri Matisse, Untitled (Study for Blue Nude), ca. 1952, graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John S. Newberry, 60.31.