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Henri Matisse · 1907

Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)

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A muscular nude, her face and shadows painted blue, lies back with one arm raised behind her head in a Mediterranean landscape of palms, a green hill and a blue stream, outlined in thick dark contours. Baltimore Museum of Art.

Up to 12.2 × 8 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

12.2″8″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)

Matisse painted the nude when a sculpture he was working on shattered; he later finished the sculpture, Reclining Nude I (Aurore). He exhibited the painting at the 1907 Salon des Indépendants, where it shocked the French public. At the Armory Show of 1913 in Chicago students burned it in effigy. It is in the Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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