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Reclining Odalisque
c. 1923
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)
Drawings
Reclining Odalisque, c. 1923. Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Graphite; sheet: 28.2 x 38.5 cm (11 1/8 x 15 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.300 © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 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. Henri Matisse was inspired to take up the subject of odalisques after visiting Morocco about a decade before this drawing was made.
- Maker/Artist
- Matisse, Henri
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- graphite
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 28.2 x 38.5 cm (11 1/8 x 15 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- 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
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1927.300
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Exhibitions
- French Art Since Eighteen Hundred, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Exhibition of Oils by Henri Matisse, Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections, Drawings from the Museum Collection, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, Drawings by Henri Matisse, Henri Matisse, French Drawings, Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965, Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure, French Drawings from the Collection, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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