Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)

This article is about the 1907 oil painting. For his series of lithographs, seeBlue Nudes.

Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)
Artist	Henri Matisse
Year	1907
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Fauvism
Dimensions	92.1 cm × 140.3 cm (36.3 in × 55.2 in)
Location	Baltimore Museum of Art,Baltimore

Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)(French:"Nu bleu, Souvenir de Biskra"), an early 1907 oil painting on canvas byHenri Matisse,is located at theBaltimore Museum of Artas part of theCone Collection.

Matisse painted the nude when a sculpture he was working on shattered. He later finished the sculpture which is entitledReclining Nude I (Aurore).

Matisse shocked the French public at the 1907Société des Artistes Indépendantswhen he exhibitedBlue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra).Blue Nudewas one of the paintings that would later create an international sensation at theArmory Show of 1913in New York City.

The painting, which may be classified asFauvist,was controversial; it was burned in effigy in 1913 at theArmory Showin Chicago, to where it had toured from New York. In 1907 the painting had a strong effect onGeorges BraqueandPablo Picasso,partially motivating Picasso to createLes Demoiselles D'Avignon.

Henri Matisse, 1906–07,Nu couché, I, Aurore (Reclining Nude, I),exhibited at Montross Gallery, New York, 1915

See also

• List of works by Henri Matisse
• 100 Great Paintings,1980 BBC series

External links

• The Cone Collection