Inscription: Incised (at bottom, on rear side): HM / 1/10 / [---] inot Fondeur Paris

The artist (until his d. 1954 ; Henri Matisse Estate, Paris (1955) ; Pierre Matisse, New York (his share of the HM estate, cast in 1996 - 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).

"Exposition Henri Matisse," Galerie Druet, Paris, March 19-April 7, 1906, exh. cat., no. 57 [not our cast];

"Henri Matisse, Sculpture, Drawings," Fine Arts Associates, New York, November 25-December 20, 1958, exh. cat. with intro by Jean Cassou, no. 5 [not our cast];

"Henri Matisse, das plastische Werk: sa?mtliche Plastiken des Meisters sowie Zeichnungen, Graphik und Collagen als Leihgaben der Sammlung Ahrenberg, Stockholm, der Familie des Ku?nstlers und aus Schweizer Privatbesitz," Kunsthaus Zurich, July 14-August 12, 1959, exh. cat. with foreword by R. W., and essays by Eduard Hüttinger and Ulf Linde, no. 12, p. 6, ill. [not our cast];

"Exposition Henri Matisse, 1869-1954: peintures, dessins, gouaches, sculptures, gravures," Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, July 11-September 15, 1961, exh. cat. with preface by Edouard Julien, and intro by Jacques Lassaigne, no. 106 [not our cast];

Auction sale, "Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings," Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, April 14, 1965, cat. no. 15, ill. p. 14 [not our cast];

"Henri Matisse, 1869-1954, Sculpture," Victor Waddington Gallery, London, June 12-July 12, 1969, exh. cat. with intro. by William Tucker, no. 5, ills., n.p. [not our cast];

"The Sculpture of Matisse," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 24-May 1, 1972, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, June 20-August 6, 1972, University Art Center, University of California, Berkeley, September 18-November 5, 1972, exh. cat. by Alicia Legg, no. 13, pp. 13 (ill.), 51 [not our cast];

"Henri Matisse: sculptures," Muse?e Matisse, Nice, July 29-September 29, 1974, exh. cat. by Colette Audibert, with preface by Jean Leymarie, no. 11, pp. 10, 18 (ill.) [not our cast];

"Henri Matisse: Dessins et Sculptures," Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, May 29-September 7, 1975, exh. cat. with introduction by Dominique Bozo, essay by Dominique Fourcade, catalogue by Dominique Fourcade and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, no. 173, ill. p. 194 [not our cast];

"Henri Matisse: dessins et sculpture / tekeningen en sculpturen" (venue of Paris 1975), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, September 27-October 26, 1975, exh. cat. with introduction by Dominique Bozo, no. 165 [not our cast];

"Henri Matisse: Sculptor-Painter: A Formal Analysis of Selected Works," Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, May 26-September 2, 1984, exh. cat. by Michael P. Mezzatesta, no. 6, pp. 49 (ill.) - 51 [not our cast];

"The Sculpture of Henri Matisse," City Art Center, Edimburgh, August 3-September 15, 1984, Hayward Gallery, London, October 4, 1984-January 6, 1985, City Art Gallery, Leeds, January 18-March 24, 1985, exh. cat. ed. by Catherine Lampert, with essay by by Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, transl. by David Macey, no. 10, ills. nos. 10 & 10a n.p., pp. 14, 15 (ill.), 30, 145 [not our cast];

"Matisse et l'Italie," Museo Correr, Venice, May 28-October 18, 1987, exh. cat. edited by Pierre Schneider, with essays by Pierre Schneider, Attilio Codognato, Xavier Girard, Christian Arthaud, and Giandomenico Romanelli, entries by Tamara Préaud, no. S10, pp. 170 (ill.), 228 [not our cast];

"Henri Matisse 1869-1954: Skulturen und Druckgraphik / Sculptures et gravures, Kunstmuseum, Bern, November 30, 1990-February 10, 1991, exh. cat. by Xavier Girard and Sandor Kuthy, no. 9, ill. p. 25 [not our cast];

"Matisse, sculptures-dessins, dialogue," Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, November 6, 1993-February 6, 1994, exh. cat. by Dominique Szymusiak, no. 24, pp. 40-41, ill. fig. 24 [unspecified cast];

"The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exh. in three parts, September 28, 2004-January 30, 2005, no cat. [our cast];

"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. 141, no. 40, pp. 187, 188 [our cast].

Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse (New York 1972), pp. 58-59, ills. fig. 67-68, and title page [not our cast];

Jack Flam, Matisse, The Man and his Art, 1869-1918 (Ithaca & London 1986), pp. 183-185, figs. 177 & 179 [not our cast] ;

Ettore Camesasca, De Manet à Picasso: Trésors du Musée d'art de São Paulo, exh. cat. (Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1988), pp. 258 (ill.), 260 [not our cast];

Claude Duthuit, Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, in collaboration with Wanda de Guébriant, with preface by Yve-Alain Bois (Paris 1997), no. 14, pp. 32-35, 309, 340, 351 [all casts] ;

"Departmental Accessions," The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Annual Report for the Year 2003-2004 (November 9, 2004), p. 20 [our cast].

Magdalena Dabrowski in The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection. The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection (New York, 2009), pp. 81-82, 157, ill.