The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection
May 18, 2004–June 26, 2005
The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Modern Art, 1st floor
This exhibition is a celebration and acknowledgment of the recent gift to the Metropolitan Museum of more than 100 works from The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation. Pierre Matisse (1900–1989), a prominent art dealer in New York, was the younger son of the French painter Henri Matisse (1869–1954). Pierre and Maria-Gaetana von Spreti (1943–2001) were married in 1974, and in 1995 Mrs. Matisse established the foundation in their names to implement her own and her late husband’s philanthropic interests. Works by Henri Matisse, the central feature of the collection, include paintings, sculpture, drawings, linocuts, and aquatints, as well as a ceramic plate and a large paper cut-out. The gift also includes works by 14 other painters and sculptors working between 1911 and 1959: Balthus, Butler, Carrington, Chagall, Delvaux, Derain, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Lam, MacIver, Magritte, Mason, Miró, and Tanguy. The subsequent installations, on view September 28, 2004, through January 30, 2005, and February 15 through June 26, 2005, respectively, add works by other painters and sculptors associated with Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse. Since works on paper are sensitive to light, selections of drawings and original prints will rotate.
Accompanied by a Bulletin.
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