Investigation into the provenance of museum collections in connection with the theft, confiscation and sale of objects under duress between 1933 and 1945.

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Standing Nude

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Standing Nude

Artist/ Creator
Henri Matisse
Title
Standing Nude
Year
c. 1900
Technique
Black chalk on paper
Size
Beeldmaat 270 x 201 mm
Inventorynumber
A 1815
Category
Drawings

Museum

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Conclusion

This drawing was given to the museum anonymously in 1940, possibly not as a gift but in a camouflaged form of safekeeping.

Explanation

The inventory card, written up on 11 March 1953, describes the work as given by an ‘unknown donor’ in 1940. It also notes that the work had a safe number: 636. This indicates that the work was stored at the shelter in Castricum (later Zandvoort) where the museum stored art from the collection during the war. Under the header Description, the writer also notes: ‘Galerie Thannhauser/Casirer? [Cassirer] Lutjens?’ This information may have been derived from text or a label on the reverse of the frame.

Reconstruction origin

? <> 1940
Unknown

Museum inventory

? <> 1940
Unknown

Museum inventory

1940
Donated to the museum by unknown person

Museum inventory

1940 <> present day
Stedelijk Museum