Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Odalisque: Hommage à Matisse

Details

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Odalisque: Hommage à Matisse
signed and dated 'A. Calder 1945' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1945

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York.

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Lot Essay

Odalisque is a whimsically surreal sendup of Matisse's great painting Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907 (Collection: Baltimore Museum of Art).

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York under application number A08376.

Odalisque: Hommage à Matisse

Lot Essay

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