Henri Matisse (1915 - his d. 1954); Estate of Henri Matisse, Paris (1955); 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).

"Henri Matisse: Dessins, Collection du Musée Matisse," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, December 22, 1988-January 22, 1989, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, February 15-March 27, 1989, Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Etienne, summer 1989, exh. cat. by Xavier Girard and Christian Arnaud, with introduction by Xavier Girard, essay by Geneviève Monnier, pp. 219-261 [general relevance];

"Autour d'un chef-d'oeuvre de Matisse: Les trois versions de la danse Barnes (1930-1933)," Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, November 18, 1993-March 6, 1994, exh. cat. with introduction by Suzanne Pagé, essays by Jack Flam, Pierre Schneider, Xavier Girard, Laurence Louppe, Jackie Monnier Matisse, Germain Viatte, Dominique Gagneux, and Jacqueline Munck, no. 7, ill. p. 162;

"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. (see MMA Bulletin 2004);

"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. 129, no. 27, pp. 179, 180.

John Jacobus, Henri Matisse (New York 1973), pp. 40-41, 170-171 [general relevance];

Pierre Schneider, Matisse, transl. by Michael Taylor and Bridget Strevens Romer (Paris & New York 1984 and 1992), pp. 614-623 [general relevance]; also revised edition (Paris & London 2002), ibid.;

John Elderfield, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992), pp. 358-9 [general relevance];

Jack Flam, Matisse: The Dance, exh. cat. (Washington DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1993), pp. 36-44 [general relevance];

Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-impressionist, and Early Modern (New York 1993), pp. 274-291 [general relevance];

Haidrun Brauner, "Natürlich ist das Dekoration": Perspektiven eines Begriffes in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts ausgehend von Henri Matisse, from the series Europäische Hochschulschriften, Kunstgeschichte, series XXVIII, vol. 176 (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1993), pp. 83-147 [general relevance];

Suzanne Pagé, introduction, in : Autour d'un chef-d'oeuvre de Matisse: les trois versions de la danse Barnes (1930-1933), exh. cat. (Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1993), p. 162;

John Russell, The World of Matisse, 1869-1954 (New York 1969), pp. 144-147;

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. 36-37, ill.;

Louise Nicholson, "A Man of Infinite Taste: The Met has Bagged a Major Treasure in the Pierre Matisse Collection," Apollo (October 2004), p. 85.

Magdalena Dabrowski in The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection. The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection (New York, 2009), pp. 106-7, 116, 162, ill.