Published in: Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.491, reproduced p. This picture was bought then or shortly afterwards on Kurt Vollmoeller's behalf by his brother-in-law the well-known German painter Hans Purrmann, who was one of Matisse's most devoted supporters from 1905 onwards, organised his painting school and became its 'student manager', arranged his first one-man show in Berlin and sold his pictures to German collectors. The sale of their collection in March 1914 was one of the principal artistic events of the year. This painting originally belonged to La Peau de l'Ours, an association of eight (later expanded to eleven) young collectors formed in 1904 for the joint purchase of works by outstanding young painters. However the sculpture has the arms folded across the breasts, instead of being extended downwards. He seems to have used this picture as a study for his first completed figure sculpture, 'Madeleine I' of 1901, just as he used several similar pictures of the male model Bevilaqua as studies for his sculpture 'The Serf' of the same period (see Barr, op.cit., p.48). Matisse worked there from 1899 until it closed some months later (in 1900?) and executed a number of studies of the nude model which like this are very bold in colour. The Académie Carrière was an atelier run by an Italian where Carrière came to correct every week it had the advantage that the more daring pupils were allowed to work without interference. Another painter at work at his easel can be seen in the background. Henri-Matisse | 1910 | Etude de femme (de l'atelier Carrière)', and the canvas bears the stamp of a paint dealer in the Rue de Rennes, where the Académie Carrière was situated. It has a label on the back stamped 'La Peau de l'Ours' and inscribed '153. This picture has usually (and perhaps correctly) been dated 1899, but when Matisse was shown a photograph by Frank McEwen in 1950, he said that it was painted in 1900 in the Académie Carrière. (New York 1951), pp.48, 531, 557 Gaston Diehl, Henri Matisse (Paris 1954), pp.24, 159 Repr: Cahiers d'Art, 1931, p.236 Alan Bowness, Matisse and the Nude (London 1968), pl.1 in colour Barr, Jr., Matisse: his Art and his Public Barnes and Violette de Mazia, The Art of Henri-Matisse Show original text ID 12626 Lot 190 Henri Matisse 'lady in Blue' In 1954, color print, 24 x 15.5 cm, l. 1930 Exh: Henri-Matisse, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, June-July 1931 (5) as 'Académie Bleue' 1899, lent by Frank Stoop Impressionists and After, Birmingham City Art Gallery, October-November 1947 (no catalogue) Matisse 1869-1954, Hayward Gallery, London, July-September 1968 (17, repr.) Lit:Īlbert C. Henri Matisse 'lady in Blue' Lot 190 Starting price 800 Auction date Classic 12:00 UTC +02:00 Archive The auction is completed. Kurt Vollmoeller, Basle, 17 March 1914 C. 'La Peau de l'Ours', Paris 'Peau de l'Ours' sale, Drouot, Paris, 2 March 1914, lot 31 bt. Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 21 3/8 (73 x 54) Inscribed 'Henri-Matisse' b.l. N04718 Acad é mie bleue (Nude Study in Blue) c.
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