Blue Nude II

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title=Blue Nude II
artist=Henri Matisse
year=1952
type=Gouache-painted paper cut-outs stuck to paper mounted on canvas
height=116.2
width=88.9
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city=Paris
museum=Pompidou Centre

"Blue Nudes" refer to a series of gouaches découpées by Henri Matisse, executed in 1952. They represent female nudes either seated or standing, and are among Matisse's final works in any medium. [http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-matisse-EN/ENS-matisse-en.htm "Henri Matisse"] , Pompidou Centre. Retrieved 25 December 2007.] During the early to mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. Eventually by 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts. "The Blue Nudes," are a major series' of Matisse's final body of works known as the "cutouts". They are widely viewed as an important and innovative group of Matisse's collages.

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ee also

*Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)