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Nov 15, 2012

Reclining Odalisque

c. 1923

Henri Matisse

(French, 1869–1954)

France, 20th century

Graphite

Support: Cream(1) wove paper, slightly discolored

Sheet: 28.2 x 38.5 cm (11 1/8 x 15 3/16 in.)

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.300

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not on view

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Henri Matisse was inspired to take up the subject of odalisques after visiting Morocco about a decade before this drawing was made.

Description

During the 1920s, Matisse used various media to represent odalisques -- female slaves or concubines in the harem of a Turkish sultan. Rather than aiming for a realistic representation of these women, however, Matisse used obviously European models, costumed and arranged with Eastern props in his studio. This drawing depicts his favorite sitter during this period, a French woman named Henriette Darricarrère, who appears in culottes with her arms raised behind her head. Matisse made marks with pencil that he then changed and strengthened as he worked, carefully but quickly constructing the figure with soft, rounded forms. He smeared the graphite in places to model and shade with a variety of tones.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in graphite: Henri - Matisse; verso, upper right, in graphite: [S?] [S?]2 x 40; from three labels on the old frame: in black ink: No [printed] 24301 / Matisse / Dessin / a.v.; in brown ink: No [printed] 24301 / Matisse / Dessin / t.u.; in black ink: 21933 / onn

Provenance

1923-May 13, 1925

Henri Matisse, sold to Bernheim Jeune & Co., Paris

May 13, 1925-May 17, 1927

(Bernheim-Jeune & Co., Paris, sold to C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York, NY)

1927

(C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York, NY, sold to Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH)

1927

Print Club of Cleveland, given to Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

1927-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

"Accessions - Gifts." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15 (January 1928): 16. Mentioned: p. 16

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville. Matisse. Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1995. Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 2, p. 1247, no. 652

DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: pp. 250-251, p. 296; Reproduced: p. 251

Exhibition history

French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937).

Exhibition of Oils by Henri Matisse. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11-December 18, 1938).

Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 22-October 26, 1941).

French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).

19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).

Drawings by Henri Matisse. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 29-April 24, 1949).

Henri Matisse. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 5-March 16, 1952).

French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966).

Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20-July 24, 1966).

Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).

French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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