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Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907, 92 x 140 cm., Baltimore Museum of Art

Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) ("Nu bleu: Souvenir de Biskra") is an early 1907 oil painting by Henri Matisse. It is located at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of the Cone Collection.

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

The painting, which may be classified as Fauvist, was controversial; it was burned in effigy in 1913 at the Armory Show in Chicago, to where it had toured from New York.

External links

• The Cone Collection

Henri Matisse Paintings (List) Woman Reading (1894)  · Le Mur Rose (Landscape, the Pink Wall) (1898)  · Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon) (1902)  · Luxe, Calme et Volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) (1904)  · La Raie Verte (The Green Line) (1905)  · The Open Window (1905)  · Woman with a Hat (1905)  · Les toits de Collioure (1905)  · Landscape at Collioure (1905)  · Le bonheur de vivre (1906)  · The Young Sailor II (1906)  · Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906)  · Madras Rouge (1907)  · Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907)  · The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908)  · Bathers with a Turtle (1908)  · La Danse (1910)  · Still Life with Geraniums (1910)  · L'Atelier Rouge (1911)  · The Conversation (1908–1912)  · Zorah on the Terrace (1912)  · Window at Tangier (1912)  · Le Rifain assis (1912)  · View of Notre-Dame (1914)  · Woman on a High Stool (1914) · Le rideau jaune (The Yellow Curtain) (1915)  · The Window (1916)  · The Painter and His Model (1917)  · Interior A Nice (1920)  · Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923)  · Yellow Odalisque (1926)  · The Dance II (mural) (1932)  · Robe violette et Anémones (1937)  · Woman in a Purple Coat (1937)  · La Blouse Roumaine (1940)  · Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1943)  · Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944)  · L'Asie (1946)  · Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947)  · The Plum Blossoms (1948)  · Beasts of the Sea (1950)  · The Sorrows of the King (1952)  · Black Leaf on Green Background (1952)  · La Négresse (1952)  · Blue Nude II (1952)  · The Snail (1953)  · Le Bateau (1953) Other works Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary)  • Jazz (book) Shows Salon d'Automne Movement Fauvism Teachers William-Adolphe Bouguereau  • Gustave Moreau  • John Peter Russell Collectors Sergei Shchukin  • Gertrude Stein  • Leo Stein  • Albert C. Barnes Family Pierre Matisse  • Paul Matisse Wikimedia  Matisse at Wiktionary  •  Matisse at Wikibooks  •  Matisse at Wikiquote  •  Matisse at Wikisource  •  Matisse at Commons  •  Matisse at Wikinews