Two Draped Nudes
Artist
Henri Matisse
French, 1869 - 1954
Date1919
Place of OriginFrance
MediumGraphite, paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 1/8 x 15 1/8 in. (28.3 x 38.4 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 in. (62.2 x 49.5 x 2.5 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 in. (62.2 x 49.5 x 2.5 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde
Object number1971.74.2
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Works on Paper
SignedSigned lower left: "Henri Matisse".
InscribedOn verso in pencil: "5956". Also in pencil with a circle around it: "16" or "91". Slight sketch marks of a square in the center.
Markingswatermark: MBM
Three labels removed from backing:
"No. K 2734, Kleeman Galleries, 65 East 57th Street, New York 22, N.Y., Two Figures, Henri Matisse, pencil drawing, 11 1/4 x 15, $475, ab. 1919".
"Scott & Fowles, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York, Cable address "Scoles New York", Two Figures, by Henri Matisse, (1869- ), Pencil drawing, 15 1/2 inches by 11 1/4 inches., Signed, lower left, Henri Matisse, From G. Jacquart, Paris".
"Scott & Fowles, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York, No. 5956".
Exhibition History"L’Art Français: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection," The Hyde Collection, Aug. 11- Oct. 6, 1996."Drawn from Life and Legend: European Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection," Hoopes Gallery, May 19- Sept. 23, 2007.
"Director's Choice: Focus on Modernism." Hoopes Gallery. The Hyde Collection. April 5- September 14, 2008.
"Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World". Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts of the Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA, January 21, 2014 - April 27, 2014, The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, May 23, 2014 - August 2, 2014,
"Masterpieces & Mysteries", Hoopes Gallery, May 1 - October 31, 2021ProvenanceParis, France, G. Jacquart
New York, NY, Scott & Fowles
New York, Kleeman Galleries
Glens Falls, NY, Mrs. Charlotte P. Hyde
1963, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust
