Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Blue Nude IV
Alternate Title:
Nu Bleu IV
Image View:
Detail, upper body with arm stretching behind the neck
Creator:
Henri Matisse (French artist, 1869-1954)
Location:
repository: Musée Matisse (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Location Note:
164, Avenue des Arènes de Cimiez
GPS:
43.719444 7.276111
Date:
1952 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
cutout
Work Type 2:
collage (visual work)
Classification:
Drawings and Watercolors
Material:
charcoal; gouache on paper attached to paper
Technique:
collage (technique); painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
abstraction; cycles or series; human figure; cutout; graphic; gouaches découpées; blue
Description:
Painted in Nice. Like all of Matisse's cutouts, this was made by hand-painting paper with gouache, then cutting it into shapes and applying it to a background paper (now backed with canvas). The Blue Nudes series represents seated female nudes, and is among Matisse’s final body of works. Blue Nude IV, the first of the four nudes, took a notebook of studies and two weeks' work of cutting-and-arrangin g before the result satisfied him. In the event, Matisse finally arrived at his favorite pose, for all four works; intertwining legs and an arm stretching behind the neck. The color blue signified distance and volume to Matisse. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-MATISSE-NB4-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Blue Nude IV