Why it matters
Matisse painted the nude after a sculpture he was working on shattered. It shocked the public in 1907 and was burned in effigy by students outside the Armory Show in Chicago in 1913.
Did you know?
- It was painted in early 1907.
- It is subtitled Souvenir of Biskra.
- It belongs to the Cone Collection in Baltimore.
Based on the Wikipedia article Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
