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<i>Woman Reading</i>

Woman Reading

Painting by Henri Matisse

Woman Reading (La Liseuse) is an oil-on-board painting executed in 1895 by the French artist Henri Matisse.[1] It is displayed at the Musée Matisse, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, having been on loan from the Centre Pompidou since 2002.[2] It shows a woman, dressed in black, seated and reading, with her back to the viewer, in the calmness of a somewhat cluttered room. Matisse incorporated a self-portrait into the painting in the form of a framed drawing hanging on the wall at the upper left.[1]

Woman Reading (La Liseuse), 1895, oil on board, 61.5 x 48 cm, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse

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References

  1. [1]
    Klein, John (2001). Matisse Portraits. Yale University press. p. 38. ISBN 9780300081008.
  2. [2]
    (in French) "Catalogue entry".
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