The Back (IV)

Henri Matisse · Nice, place Charles-Félix, c. 1931

The Back, the fourth and last, made around nineteen thirty-one — a quarter of a century after the first. What is left is three or four columns of bronze and the memory of a woman leaning on a wall. Look back along the row: this is the same figure, reduced one decision at a time.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 6' 2" x 44 1/4" x 6" (188 x 112.4 x 15.2 cm) · Credit Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

Hanging beside it in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden: The Back (III), Moonbird

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: First Light, The Storm Tree, Cypress Root and Succulents, Point Lobos, The Cave

More by Henri Matisse here: The Back (I), The Back (II), The Back (III), Tiari, Dance (I), The Moroccans