A Sudanese

Henri Matisse  (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)

Date:
1913
Medium:
Charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (26.7 x 20.6 cm) 23 x 17 x 2 in. (58.4 x 43.2 x 5.1 cm) (Frame)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002
Accession Number:
2002.456.40
Rights and Reproduction:
© 2011 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: L.L. (in pencil): Henri-Matisse

  • Provenance

    Henri Matisse, Paris (1913 - his d. 1954) ; Estate of Henri Matisse, Paris (1954); Pierre Matisse, New York (1955 - his d. 1989); his widow, Maria-Gaetana Matisse, née von Spreti, New York (1989 - her d. 2001); Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Foundation (2002; gift to MMA).

  • Exhibition History

    "Matisse in Morocco. The Paintings and Drawings, 1912-1913," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 18-June 30, 1990, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 20-September 4, 1990, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, September 28-November 20, 1990, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, December 15, 1990-February 15, 1991, exh. cat. by Jack Cowart, Pierre Schneider, John Elderfield, Albert Kostenevich, and Laura Coyle, no. 43, ills. pp.126 (ill.), 173;

    "Le Maroc de Matisse," Institut du monde arabe, Paris, October 19, 1999-January 30, 2000, exh. cat. with introduction by Brahim Alaoui, essays by Claude Duthuit, Rémi Labrusse, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Pierre Schneider, Albert Kostenevitch, Claudine Grammont, and Christine Peltre, catalogue entries by Rémi Labrusse, Evguenia Guéorgievskaïa, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, and Pierre Schneider, no. 31, ill. p. 101;

    "The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exh. in three parts, May 18, 2004-June 26, 2005, no cat. (see MMA Bulletin 2004);

    "Pierre Matisse passeur passionné: Un marchand d'art et ses artistes," The Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, Oct. 20, 2005-January 14, 2006, exh. cat. edited by Pierre Schneider, essays by Pierre Schneider, Paul Matisse, Sabine Rewald, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, and Jacques Dupin, pp. 153 (ill.), 191;

    "La Colección Pierre & Maria-Gaetana Matisse en The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York / The Pierre & Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," Museo Picasso, Malaga, March 26-June 24, 2007, exh. cat. edited by Bernardo Laniado-Romero, texts by Pierre Schneider and Jonathan Pascoe Pratt, ill. p. 126, no. 24, pp. 176, 177.

    Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. "Matisse: Drawing Life," December 3, 2011–March 4, 2012, no. 32.

  • References

    Henri Matisse, and André Sauret, ed. Portraits par Henri Matisse (Monte-Carlo 1954), pp. 23 (ill.), 149; and 1955 edition in English, Portraits by Henri Matisse, ibid.;

    Jack Cowart, Pierre Schneider, John Elderfield, Albert Kostenevich, and Laura Coyle, with introduction by pierre Schneider, Matisse au Maroc: peintures et dessins, 1912-1913, translated from the English (Washington 1990 exh.) by Anne Michel and Gilles Courtois (Paris 1999), p. 113, 114 (ill. no. 43), 159 (ill.);

    Magdalena Dabrowski, William S. Lieberman, and Sabine Rewald, "Selections from the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 61, no. 4 (Spring 2004), pp. 31.

    Magdalena Dabrowski in The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection. The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection (New York, 2009), pp. 94, 160, ill.

  • See also
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