The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2023

Face Slightly Bent to the Left

1913

Henri Matisse

(French, 1869–1954)

France, 20th century

Lithograph

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1925.981

© Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Catalogue raisonné: Duthuit Vol.II, Matisse 414

Location

not on view

Description

"I have always tried to hide my own efforts and wished my works to have the lightness and joyousness of a springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost. So I am afraid that the young, seeing in my work only the apparent facility and negligence in the drawing, will use this as an excuse for dispensing with certain efforts which I believe necessary..."

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1995-1996: Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors: November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996, no cat.

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

Contemporary European Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 17-September 6, 1939).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1925.981