“Nu bleu femme assise no. ll”

Year:	1952
Medium:	lithograph
Dimensions:	35,6 x 26 cm
Edition size:	2000
Printer:	Mourlot, Paris
Signature:	stone signed lower left

The Blue Nudes is a series of collages, and related color lithographs, by Henri Matisse, made from paper cut-outs depicting nude figures in various positions. Restricted by his physical condition after his surgery for stomach cancer, Matisse began creating art by cutting and painting sheets of paper by hand; these Matisse viewed as independent artworks in their own right. The Blue Nudes refers also to the editioned multiples based on the cut-outs. Matisse supervised the creation of these lithographs until his death in 1954.