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Jeune Hindoue (Duthuit 508), 1929
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Medium: hand-signed lithograph
Year: 1929
Edition: 71
Sheet size: 15.5 x 19.5"
Image size: 11.25 x 14.21"
Framed size: 24.75 x 29"
Signature: signed 'Henri Matisse' and annotated lower right
Year: 1929
Edition: 71
Sheet size: 15.5 x 19.5"
Image size: 11.25 x 14.21"
Framed size: 24.75 x 29"
Signature: signed 'Henri Matisse' and annotated lower right
About the Work
"Jeune Hindoue" is a lithograph created by Henri Matisse in 1929. From the edition of 71, the artwork is signed signed 'Henri Matisse' and annotated lower right. The artwork is framed in a custom, closed corner, gold leaf frame and has a framed size of 24.75 x 29". The artwork ships framed and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Henri Matisse’s prints occupy a distinct and important place within his broader achievement. While he is most widely associated with color, painting, and the radical innovations of Fauvism, his work in black and white reveals another side of his art: the ability to build atmosphere, sensuality, and structure through line, tone, and the disciplined economy of lithography. In the best of these works, Matisse does not rely on color to carry emotion. Instead, he uses contour, shadow, pattern, and pose to create images of remarkable presence.
"Jeune Hindoue," created in 1929 and catalogued as Duthuit 508, is a strong example of Matisse’s mature lithographic practice. The work presents a reclining nude seated in an elaborately ornamented chair before a gridded background. The figure is adorned with jewelry and a veil, elements that connect the image to Matisse’s long engagement with odalisque imagery and with the decorative vocabularies he encountered through Islamic, North African, and broader non-Western visual traditions.
Yet the print’s significance is not limited to exoticism or theatrical costume. What makes "Jeune Hindoue" compelling is the way Matisse transforms a charged pictorial convention into a study of form, rhythm, and interior atmosphere. The chair’s curling ornament, the tiled wall, the patterned floor, and the softly modeled body are held together by a sophisticated balance of linear precision and tonal depth. The figure is neither incidental nor merely decorative; she anchors the composition with a calm, self-contained presence. The image has more visual density and compositional ambition than many of Matisse’s smaller, more spare black-and-white prints.
"Jeune Hindou's" strength is its status as a lifetime lithograph from 1929, signed and issued in a limited edition, with a highly recognizable figurative subject, strong decorative architecture, and immediate visual appeal. It is a refined and collectible example of Matisse’s monochrome printmaking, especially attractive to buyers who value his odalisque-period imagery and his command of line.
"Jeune Hindoue" is best understood as an above-average Matisse lithograph: elegant, sensual, formally resolved, and historically complex. Its appeal comes not from rarity alone, but from the convergence of subject, draftsmanship, atmosphere, and Matisse’s enduring ability to make pattern and figure feel inseparable.
About the Artist
Jeune Hindoue (Duthuit 508), 1929
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