Henri Matisse
1869-1954
Music
1909-1910
12 x 9 1/2 inches (305 x 240 mm) in decorative frame 18 3/4 x 16 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches
Reed pen and black ink.
2017.167
Thaw Collection.
© 2020 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Notes
This drawing is a study for Matisse's large composition, Music, painted in 1910 for the Russian collector Sergey Shchukin and now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Matisse added the signature and date (12) at the bottom of this sheet at a later date, during the 1940s, misremembering the actual year of the sketch.
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Signed and dated at a later date at lower right, in pen and black ink, "Henri Matisse 12".
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