[Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1919; stock no. 21625; purchased from the artist on June 23, 1919; on consignment to Vildrac; paid Fr 3,000 on January 13, 1920 by Vildrac]; [Galerie Vildrac, Paris, 1919; on consignment to Leicester Galleries; paid Fr 3,250 in January 1920 by Leicester Galleries]; [Leicester Galleries, London, 1919; sold in November 1919, for £131.25, to Davis]; [Brandon Davis, South Africa and London, 1919–23; on consignment to Leicester Galleries; sold on July 26, 1923, for $500, to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, New York (1923–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1931–82; his bequest to MMA)
London. Leicester Galleries. "Exhibition of Pictures by Henri-Matisse and Sculpture by Maillol," November–December 1919, no. 3 (as "Dans la campagne de Nice").
New York. Montross Gallery. "Original Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings Being Exhibited with the Dial Folio 'Living Art'," January 26–February 14, 1924, no catalogue (typed checklist no. 25; as "Dans la Campagne de Nice").
Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 20 (as "Dans la campagne de Nice").
Northampton, Mass. Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. "The Dial Collection," May 1924, no catalogue.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Henri-Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition," November 3–December 6, 1931, no. 42 (as "Landscape, Nice," 1917–18).
Cambridge, Mass. Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University. "Matisse: A Museum Course Exhibition," May 9–June 8, 1955, no. 6 (as "Dans la campagne de Nice," lent anonymously through the Worcester Art Museum).
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 63 (as "Landscape, Nice").
Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 86 (as "In the Country around Nice," ca. 1919).
"The Art of Matisse: A Painter of Life Itself." Times (November 18, 1919), p. 15.
"Henri-Matisse." Burlington Magazine 35 (December 1919), p. 281.
"Modern Art Spirit Seen in Collection." Worcester Daily Telegram (March 6, 1924), p. 4.
Dial 80 (February 1926), ill. opp. p. 89 (color), as "Dans la campagne de Nice".
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Matisse: His Art and His Public. New York, 1951, p. 559, calls it "Dans la campagne de Nice" and dates it about 1920.
Louisa Dresser inThe Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, p. 80, no. 63, states that it was included in Exh. London 1919 and lists Brandon Davis in the provenance.
Loring Holmes Dodd. "Dial Magazine Has Long History." Worcester Evening Gazette (May 13, 1959), ill.
Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold in Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade. Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916–1930. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Washington, 1986, p. 273 n. 60, indicates that Thayer purchased this picture from the Leicester Galleries.
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville. Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris, 1995, vol. 1, pp. 700–701; vol. 2, pp. 796–97, no. 332, ill., call it "Paysage aux vignes" and note that it was photographed by Bernheim-Jeune in July 1919; state that it was acquired from Matisse in 1919; erroneously list no. 313 as stock no. 21625 [see Ex-collections].
Rémi Labrusse. "Matisse's Second Visit to London and His Collaboration with the 'Ballets Russes'." Burlington Magazine 139 (September 1997), p. 598 n. 53 (possibly this painting), quotes from a [November 15, 1919] letter in which Matisse describes meeting a gentleman [Brandon Davis?] at the Leicester Galleries exhibition who had purchased four small Nice landscapes and a figure before the exhibition opened and then proceeded to buy another Nice landscape and a head of Lorette.
Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)
1906
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