Marguerite Duthuit, Paris (the artist's daughter; a gift from the artist)
Private Collection
Acquired by the present owner circa 2000

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount in all four corners, floating in the mount. The right edge of the sheet is deckled. There are artist's pinholes in the upper two corners, to the upper left edge and in the centre of the upper edge. Apart from from minor spots of foxing and some light studio dirt, this work is in good original condition.
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'I had to catch my breath, to relax and forget my worries, far from Paris. The Odalisques were the bounty of a happy nostalgia, a lovely, vivid dream, and the almost ecstatic, enchanted days and nights of the Moroccan climate. I felt an irresistible need to express that ecstasy, that divine unconcern, in corresponding coloured rhythms, rhythms of sunny and lavish figures and colours.'

Henri Matis🌃se reflecting on h🐼is sojourns to Morocco in 1912-13