London. Grafton Galleries. "Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition," October 5–December 31, 1912, no. 22 (as "Les Capucines").
New York. Armory of the Sixty-ninth Regiment. "International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show)," February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 409 (as "Les Capucines").
Art Institute of Chicago. "International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show)," March 24–April 16, 1913, no. 246 (as "Nasturtiums").
Copley Hall, Copley Society of Boston. "International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show)," April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 127 (as "Nasturtiums").
Düsseldorf. Galerie Alfred Flechtheim. "Beiträge zur Kunst des XIX.Jahrhunderts und Unserer Zeit," December 21, 1913–January 1914, unnumbered cat. (as "La danse aux Capucines").
Berlin. Kronprinzen-Palais (Nationalgalerie). "Loans from private collectors and dealers," June 21, 1921–October 1922, no catalogue.
New York. Montross Gallery. "Original Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings Being Exhibited with the Dial Folio 'Living Art'," January 26–February 14, 1924, unnum. checklist (as "La Danse aux Capucines").
Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 21 (as "La Dance aux capucines").
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. 22 (as "Nasturtiums and 'La Danse').
New York. Pierre Matisse Gallery. "Henri Matisse, "la danse": Sketch for the Moscow Decoration," October 27–November 21, 1936, no. 2 (as "La Danse aux Capucines," 1910, lent by the Worcester Museum, Worcester).
Worcester Art Museum. "The Art of the Third Republic: French Painting 1870–1940," February 22–March 16, 1941, no. 23 (as "Nasturtiums and the Dance [La Danse aux Capucines]," lent by the Worcester Art Museum [Anonymous Loan]).
New York. Pierre Matisse Gallery. "About 30 Years Ago: An Exhibition Reviewing Some of the Works of the Leaders of French Modern Painting in Its Youth," April 13–May 1, 1943, no. 7 (as "Nasturtiums," 1913, lent anonymously by courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum).
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," April 3–May 9, 1948, no. 22 (as "Nasturtiums and 'La Danse' [La Danse aux Capucines]," lent anonymously through the Courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum).
New York. Durand-Ruel Galleries. "'What They Said'—Postscript to Art Criticism," November 28–December 17, 1949, no. 14 (as "La Danse aux capucines," 1910, lent anonymously through the courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum).
Providence. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. "Five Modern Old Masters," October 25–November 26, 1950, no. 9 (as "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance,'" 1910, lent anonymously through the courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Henri Matisse," November 13, 1951–January 13, 1952, no. 32 (as "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance,' II," lent anonymously through the Worcester Art Museum).
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Henri Matisse," February 5–March 16, 1952, no. 32.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Henri Matisse," April 1–May 4, 1952, no. 32.
San Francisco Museum of Art. "Henri Matisse," May 22–July 6, 1952, no. 32.
Portland, Ore. Portland Art Museum. "Henri Matisse," September 12–October 12, 1952, no catalogue.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. "Modern French Masters," November 28–December 31, 1952, no. 21 (as "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance'," lent anonymously through the Worcester Art Museum).
Akron Art Institute. "Modern French Masters," January 13–February 16, 1953, no. 21.
Worcester Art Museum. "Modern French Masters," March 5–April 12, 1953, no. 21.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 61 (as "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance,' II").
Worcester Art Museum. "Selections from the Dial Collection," November 13–30, 1965, unnum. checklist (as "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance,' II").
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial Revisited," June 29–August 22, 1971, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 87 (as "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance,' II").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection One," February 1–April 30, 1985, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection Three," October 22, 1985–January 26, 1986, no catalogue.
Canberra. Australian National Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," March 1–April 27, 1986, unnumbered cat. (p. 23; as "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance'").
Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," May 7–July 1, 1986, unnumbered cat.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Henri Matisse: A Retrospective," September 24, 1992–January 12, 1993, extended to January 19, 1993, no. 149 (as "Nasturtiums with 'Dance' [I]").
Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou. "Henri Matisse 1904–1917," February 25–June 21, 1993, no. 103 (as "Capucines à 'La danse' I").
Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. "Matisse," March 29–May 16, 1995, no. 64 (as "Nasturtiums with 'Dance' [I]").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895–1950," March 8–December 31, 2000, extended to January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 77; as "Nasturtiums with the Painting 'Dance II'").
Tokyo. National Museum of Western Art. "Henri Matisse: Processus/ Variation," September 10–December 12, 2004, no. 6 (as "Capucines à 'La Danse'").
Düsseldorf. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. "Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum," October 29, 2005–February 19, 2006, no. 53 (as "Capucines à "la danse' I").
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Galerie 2. "Matisse. Paires et séries," March 7–June 18, 2012, unnumbered cat. (p. 76; as "Capucines à La Danse I").
Copenhagen. Statens Museum for Kunst. "Matisse—fordobling og variation," July 14–October 28, 2012, no. 19.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Matisse: In Search of True Painting," December 4, 2012–March 17, 2013, no. 19.
Henri Matisse. Letter to Walter Pach. December 6, 1912 [reproduced and published in English transl. in Ref. Cauman 1991, pp. 3, 5], lists this picture among those that he will lend to the Armory Show, and notes that it is for sale [Shchukin had purchased the other version of this composition, now Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, by August 1912; see Ref. Elderfield 1990].
C. Lewis Hind. "Ideals of Post-Impressionism." Daily Chronicle (October 5, 1912), p. 6 [reprinted in J. B. Bullen, ed., "Post-Impressionists in England," London, 1988, p. 367].
Rupert Brooke. Cambridge Magazine (November 23, 1912), pp. 125–26 [reprinted in J. B. Bullen, ed., "Post-Impressionists in England," London, 1988, p. 405].
Clara T. MacChesn[ey]. "A Talk with Matisse, Leader of Post-Impressionists." New York Times Magazine (March 9, 1913), p. 12, ill. [publication of an interview which took place in the summer of 1912; see Jack Flam, "Matisse on Art," New York, 1973, pp. 49–53], describes seeing two equal sized paintings of nude figures, discussed by Matisse as a sketch and the finished canvas [the MMA and Pushkin versions of "Nasturtiums"].
W. D. MacColl. "The International Exhibition of Modern Art: An Impression." Forum 50 (July 1913), p. 34, calls it "Les Capucines".
R[oyal]. C[ortissoz]. "The Post-Impressionist and Cubist Vagaries." New York Tribune (February 23, 1913), section II, p. 6.
Nixola Greeley-Smith. "An Alienist Will Charge You $5,000 to Tell You if You're Crazy; Go to the Cubist Show and You'll Be Sure of It for a Quarter." Evening World (February 22, 1913), p. 8 (caricature).
[Oscar Cesare]. "What Cesare Saw at the Armory Art Show." Sun (February 23, 1913), p. 11 (caricature).
Heinz Braune. "Zu einem Gemälde von Henri Matisse." Genius 2 (1920), pp. 197–98, ill. opp. p. 196 (color), as "Intérieur" in the Moll collection.
Roland Schacht. Henri Matisse. Dresden, 1922, ill. p. 67, as "Tanz".
Scofield Thayer. Living Art: Twenty Facsimile Reproductions after Paintings, Drawings and Engravings and Ten Photographs after Sculpture by Contemporary Artists. New York, 1923, colorpl. 3, calls it "La Danse aux capucines" and dates it 1911.
Thomas Craven. "Living Art." Dial 76 (February 1924), pp. 181–82, calls it "La Danse aux Capucines".
Henry McBride. "Modern Art." Dial 76 (February 1924), p. 209, calls it "La Danse aux Capucines".
Thomas Craven. "Henri Matisse." Dial 76 (May 1924), p. 404, calls it "La Danse aux Capucines".
"'Living Art' Folio and Originals Seen." Art News 22 (February 2, 1924), p. 5, as "La Danse aux Capucines".
[Elisabeth Luther Cary]. "The World of Art: Modern Art of One Kind and Another." New York Times (January 27, 1924), p. SM10, calls it "La Danse aux Capucines"; comments that "a much better Matisse" than this picture could have been included in the "Living Art" portfolio.
Carl Einstein. Die Kunst des 20.Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1926, pp. 24, 559, ill. p. 182, calls it "Die Kapuzinerkresse," dates it 1910, and erroneously locates it still in the Moll collection.
A[lfred]. H. B[arr]., Jr. Henri-Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1931, pp. 15–16, 18, 38, 47, no. 22, ill., dates it 1910 and notes that "the background is a free copy of 'The Dance'".
Meyer Schapiro. "Matisse and Impressionism." Androcles 1 (February 1932), pp. 27–28, calls it "Nasturtiums and Dance".
Martha Davidson. "Matisse's Allegory of the Dance." Art News 35 (November 7, 1936), p. 14, calls it "La Danse aux Capucines".
H. D. "Henri Matisse Art on Exhibition Here." New York Times (October 28, 1936), p. 23, calls it "La Danse aux Capucines"; identifies it as the sketch for the finished composition in Moscow.
Usaburō Ihara. L’Idée et l’espirit de l’art moderne. Vol. 3, Cubisme. Tokyo, 1937, ill. p. 59.
The Art of the Third Republic: French Painting 1870–1940. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1941, unpaginated, no. 23, ill., dates it 1910.
Huldah M. Smith. "Balancing to Date the Books on the French. The Art of the Third Republic: 1870–1940." Art News 40 (February 15–28, 1941), p. 28.
Thomas B. Hess. "Matisse: A Life of Color." Art News 47 (April 1948), ill. p. 19, calls it "Nasturtiums and The Dance" and dates it 1910.
Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1948, p. 38, no. 22, ill., dates it 1910 and notes that the background depicts "Dance I" (Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Matisse: His Art and His Public. New York, 1951, pp. 127, 144, 149–50, 156–57, 174, 194, 199, 201, 539 (p. 144 n. 5), 540 (p. 156 n. 5), 559, ill. p. 383, calls it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance,' II (Les capucines à 'La danse,' 2me version)" and dates it summer 1912; notes that Shchukin agreed to lend his version of "Nasturtiums" to the Salon d'Automne even though the Salon catalogue lists the owner as "Dr. G..." [see Ref. Elderfield 1990]; adds that the MMA version was lent by Matisse to Exh. London 1912 at the same time as the Salon; states that Matisse confirmed in a questionnaire that the MMA picture was the second version; observes that its "more abstract and refined composition" compared to the Pushkin version corresponds to the style of Matisse's earlier pairs of paintings, in which the first version is more naturalistic, such as "Young Sailor I and II" (private collection; MMA 1999.363.41); states that Thayer purchased it in 1922 from Oskar Moll.
Adrian Hayward. "Worcester's Art Museum." Worcester Telegram (April 3, 1951), calls it "La Danse Aux Capucenes" [sic].
Frank Anderson Trapp. "The Paintings of Henri Matisse: Origins and Early Development (1890–1917)." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1951, pp. 174–75, fig. 127, calls it "La Danse aux capucines".
Sam Hunter. Henri Matisse, 1869–1954. New York, 1956, unpaginated, fig. 9 (color), calls it "Nasturtiums and The Dance, II".
Gaston Diehl with notices by Agnès Humbert. Henri Matisse. Paris, 1958, pp. 53, 101, 106, calls it "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance' II".
Louisa Dresser in The Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, pp. 78–79, no. 61, ill., citing letters in the Dial collection papers, states that Oskar Moll sold this picture to the Dial Collection [Thayer] in May 1923.
Loring Holmes Dodd. "Dial Magazine Has Long History." Worcester Evening Gazette (May 13, 1959), calls it "Nasturtiums and the Dance".
Louisa Dresser. Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar 24 (April 1959), p. 26, ill. on cover, calls it "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance'".
Werner Haftmann. Painting in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2, rev. ed. New York, 1960, p. 55, ill. p. 65, calls it "La danse aux capucines".
"Matisse's Work at Art Museum." Worcester Sunday Telegram (January 1, 1961), ill., calls it "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance'".
1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1963. Exh. cat., Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica. New York, 1963, p. 197, ill. p. 92, calls it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance,' II".
Samuel Sachs, II. "Reconstructing the 'whirlwind of 26th Street'." Art News 61 (February 1963), ill. p. 26 (installation photo, Exh. Chicago 1913).
Nicholas Joost. Scofield Thayer and The Dial: An Illustrated History. Carbondale, Ill., 1964, pp. 229, 237–38, ill. between pp. 268 and 269, calls it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance' II".
Richard A. Moore. The Dialectic Norm of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art. Atlanta, 1968, pp. 72–73, fig. 6, calls it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance,' II".
Alan Bowness. Matisse and the Nude. New York, 1968, p. 20, colorpl. 14, calls it "Nasturiums and The Dance, II" and dates it 1911.
Massimo Carrà. L'opera di Matisse dalla rivolta 'fauve' all'intimismo, 1904–1928. Milan, 1971, p. 92, no. 148, ill., dates it 1911.
Nicholas Joost. "The Dial Collection: Tastes and Trends of the 'Twenties." Apollo 94 (December 1971), p. 494, fig. 9, calls it "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance', II".
[Louis] Aragon. Henri Matisse: A Novel. [French ed., 1971]. New York, 1972, vol. 1, p. 301, calls it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance'"; notes that Mme Duthuit [the artist's daughter, Marguerite] dates both versions of "Nasturtiums" to 1911.
John Hallmark Neff. "Matisse and Decoration 1906–1914: Studies of the Ceramics and the Commissions for Paintings and Stained Glass." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1974, pp. 143–44, 180 n. 162, fig. 74, calls it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance'".
John Hallmark Neff. "Matisse and Decoration: The Shchukin Panels." Art in America 63 (July–August 1975), pp. 40, 44, 48 nn. 17, 23, figs. 8, 15, calls it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance' II"; notes that Marguerite Duthuit [the artist's daughter] recently dated both versions of this painting to 1911; states that the MMA picture was purchased by Oskar Moll "but probably could not have been shipped to Germany after the beginning of hostilities in mid-August 1914" [the painting was already in Germany in 1913; see Exh. Düsseldorf 1913–14]; reproduces a photograph of this painting in Matisse's studio before the unfinished "Bathers by a River" (1909–17; Art Institute of Chicago).
Meyer Schapiro. Modern Art, 19th & 20th Centuries: Selected Papers. New York, 1978, p. 169, fig. 5, calls it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance,' II (Les capucines à 'La Danse,' 2me version)".
T. Borovaya with E. Georgievskaya in Henri Matisse: Paintings and Sculptures in Soviet Museums. Leningrad, 1978, p. 168, under no. 42, ill., call it "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance'".
John Russell. "The Dial: Showcase of a Pioneer Collector." New York Times (May 3, 1981), p. D27.
Douglas Mannering. The Art of Matisse. [London], 1982, pp. 49–50.
Michael Brenson. "Met Museum Given Major Private Collection." New York Times (August 25, 1982), pp. A1, C18.
Michael P. Mezzatesta. Henri Matisse Sculptor/Painter: A Formal Analysis of Selected Works. Exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth, 1984, pp. 94–96, fig. 62, calls it "Nasturtiums with 'The Dance' II" and dates it 1911.
Lisa M. Messinger in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1984–1985. New York, 1985, pp. 46–47, ill. and on front cover (color), calls it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance,' II".
John Russell. "New York's Next Modern Museum Is on the Way." New York Times (February 17, 1985), p. H33, calls it "Nasturtiums with 'The Dance'".
Jack Flam. Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869–1918. Ithaca, 1986, pp. 345–47, 500 nn. 41, 42, p. 501 n. 14, fig. 347 (color), calls it "Nasturtiums with 'Dance' II" but notes that Matisse's description in Ref. MacChesney 1913 "seems to indicate that the Moscow picture was painted second"; comments that the Pushkin version was shown at the Salon d'Automne 1912 while the MMA version was in Exh. London 1912, adding that "the paired paintings, it seems, were not meant to be compared with each other"; mentions the photograph of this picture taken in Matisse's studio in front of "Bathers by a River" [see Ref. Neff 1975] and dates the photograph to early summer 1913, when this picture had returned from the Armory Show.
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, calls it "Nasturtiums and The Dance II".
Michael Lloyd in 20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Exh. cat., Australian National Gallery. Canberra, 1986, pp. 22–23, ill. (color), calls it the second version of this composition.
Michael Lloyd. "Modern Masters from the Metropolitan." Art and Australia 23 (Autumn 1986), pp. 345, 348, ill. on cover (color) and p. 313, calls it "Nasturtiums and 'Dance,' II".
John Russell. "Impressionist Show at Met from Soviet." New York Times (August 22, 1986), p. C20, remarks that Exh. New York 1986 may be the first time that the two versions of this composition have been seen together.
William S. Lieberman. 20th Century Art: Selections from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Vol. 1, Painting: 1905–1945. New York, 1986, pp. 6, 20–21, ill. (color, overall and detail), front cover (color detail), back cover (color), calls it "Nasturtiums and 'Dance'" and discusses it as the second version.
Kay Larson. "The Met Goes Modern: Bill Lieberman's Brave New Wing." New York Magazine 19 (December 15, 1986), p. 42, calls it "Nasturtiums and 'The Dance'".
Gary Tinterow et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 8, Modern Europe. New York, 1987, p. 102, colorpl. 79, call it "Nasturtiums and the 'Dance,' II".
John Richardson. "Rediscovering an Early Modern Vision: The Dial Collection Recalls the Life and Times of Scofield Thayer." House and Garden 159 (February 1987), ill. p. 163 (color).
Milton W. Brown. The Story of the Armory Show. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 1963]. New York, 1988, p. 292, notes that this work was lent by the artist to the 1913 Armory Show, and was for sale for $1,080.
John Elderfield in Matisse in Morocco: The Paintings and Drawings, 1912–1913. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Washington, 1990, pp. 218, 222, 237 n. 76, p. 259, fig. 104, calls it "Les capucines à 'La danse'"; asserts that in Ref. MacChesney 1913, Matisse indicates that the MMA painting preceded the Pushkin version; publishes the August 22, 1912 letter from Shchukin to Matisse agreeing to the loan of the Pushkin "Nasturtiums" to the Salon d'Automne.
M[arina]. Bessonova in From Poussin to Matisse: The Russian Taste for French Painting. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Chicago, 1990, p. 144, comments that it is "interesting to speculate" that this is the first version.
John Cauman. "Henri Matisse's Letters to Walter Pach." Archives of American Art Journal 31, no. 3 (1991), pp. 3, 5–6, ill., calls it "Nasturtiums with 'Dance' II (Les Capucines)".
John Elderfield. Henri Matisse: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1992, pp. 63, 179, 184, colorpl. 149, establishes it as the first version of this composition and dates it spring–early summer 1912.
Dominique Fourcade and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine. Henri Matisse 1904–1917. Exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris, 1993, pp. 322–23, 488–90, no. 103, ill. (color and bw), cite letters in the Archives Matisse which indicate that this painting was shown at the Salon d'Automne of 1912, lent by Curt Glaser, and was purchased that year from Glaser by his father-in-law, Hugo Kolker, Breslau; state that Matisse asked both Shchukin and Glaser to lend their paintings to the Salon, and that the Glaser painting was delivered to Kolker in November 1912 after the Salon closed; assert that Oskar and Greta Moll bought this painting by 1920 and sold it through Flechtheim to Thayer in 1922; state that although the MMA painting is reproduced in Ref. MacChesney 1913, it was the Shchukin version that was exhibited in Exh. London 1912 and the Armory Show [but see Ref. Sachs 1963; James Huneker, "Decade of the New Art Movement Shows Big Changes," New York Times, November 10, 1912, p. SM12, describes the Pushkin painting in the Salon].
Carol Vogel. "The Art Market." New York Times (February 5, 1993), p. C24, calls it "Nasturtiums with 'Dance' (I)".
Marina Bessonova in Morozov and Shchukin—The Russian Collectors. Exh. cat., Museum Folkwang. Essen, 1993, p. 416, ill., calls it "Nasturtiums and 'Dance'".
Albert Kostenevich and Natalia Semyonova. Collecting Matisse. Paris, 1993, pp. 134, 145, call it "Nasturtiums and 'La Danse' II".
Barbara Burn, ed. Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1993, p. 293, ill. (color), calls it "Nasturtiums with 'Dance'".
Sophie Monneret. Matisse. Paris, 1994, p. 97, no. 187, ill., calls it "Les Capucines à 'La danse' II".
Kathleen Howard, ed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1983). New York, 1994, p. 435, no. 9, ill. (color).
Roger Benjamin in Matisse. Ed. Caroline Turner and Roger Benjamin. Exh. cat., Queensland Art Gallery. Brisbane, 1995, pp. 27, 195, no. 64, ill. pp. 6, 198 (color).
John Elderfield in Matisse. Ed. Caroline Turner and Roger Benjamin. Exh. cat., Queensland Art Gallery. Brisbane, 1995, p. 67 n. 54.
Peter Kropmanns in Oskar Moll: Gemälde und Aquarelle. Exh. cat., Landesmuseum Mainz. Cologne, 1997, pp. 82–83, ill., calls it "Capucines à "La danse' I"; erroneously states that Glaser bought this picture for his father-in-law, Kolker [see Ref. Fourcade and Monod-Fontaine 1993], and the Molls probably acquired it through Glaser after Kolker's death in 1915; adds that they probably purchased it for an extraordinarily good price.
Albert Kostenevich. Matisse: "La révélation m'est venue de l'Orient". Exh. cat., Musei Capitolini, Rome. Florence, 1997, pp. 49, 54.
Albert Kostenevich in Henri Matisse: Four Great Collectors. Ed. Kasper Monrad. Exh. cat., Statens Museum for Kunst. Copenhagen, 1999, p. 88.
Albert Kostenevich and Kasper Monrad in Henri Matisse: Four Great Collectors. Ed. Kasper Monrad. Exh. cat., Statens Museum for Kunst. Copenhagen, 1999, pp. 232–33, agree with Elderfield's [Ref. 1992] reordering of the two versions, noting that this picture, with its thinly applied paint, must be a sketch for the Pushkin version; assert that the MMA painting was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne of 1912, from the Glaser collection, and the Pushkin version shown in Exh. London 1912 and the Armory show in 1913, since Shchukin did not receive it until October 1913.
Sandra Persuy. "'Les sources du xxe siècle'. Une vision européenne et pluridisciplinaire de l'art." Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne 67 (Spring 1999), p. 63, lists it among works requested but refused for loan to the exhibition "Les Sources du XXe siècle," Paris, 1960.
John H. Cauman. "Matisse and America, 1905–1933." PhD diss., City University of New York, 2000, vol. 1, pp. 191–92 n. 3, p. 300 n. 26, p. 494; vol. 2, fig. 4.12, calls it "Nasturtiums with 'Dance' I"; agrees with Ref. Fourcade and Monod-Fontaine 1993, asserting that the Pushkin version was shown in Exh. London 1912 and the Armory show; states that Thayer purchased this work from Oskar and Greta Moll through Flechtheim in 1922.
William S. Lieberman. "Les Peintres de Paris à New York." Connaissance des arts no. 578 (December 2000), p. 130, calls it the second version of this composition.
Pierre Schneider. Matisse. Rev. ed. (English ed., 1984). Paris, 2002, pp. 267, 349, 431, calls it "Capucines à 'La Danse' I".
John Golding in Matisse, Picasso. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2002, pp. 173, 353 nn. 1, 8, 10, fig. 51, calls it "Nasturtiums with 'Dance' I"; asserts that the MMA picture was exhibited in Exh. London 1912 and the 1913 Armory Show.
Masayuki Tanaka in Henri Matisse: Processus/ Variation. Ed. Masayuki Tanaka and Chika Amano. Exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art. Tokyo, 2004, p. 58, no. 6, ill. (color) pp. 47, 59, front cover.
Yve-Alain Bois. "A De Luxe Experiment: 'Le Luxe, II'." Matisse: Masterpieces at Statens Museum for Kunst. Copenhagen, 2005, pp. 113, 115, 130 nn. 6, 7, fig. 7 (color), calls it "Nasturtiums with 'Dance', I".
Marina Bessonova and Evgenia Georievskaya. France, Second Half 19th–20th Century, Painting Collection: State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow, 2005, p. 155, ill. p. 157, call it "Nasturtiums and 'La Danse' I" and identify it as a sketch for the Pushkin version.
Andreas Strobl. Curt Glaser: Kunsthistoriker—Kunstkritiker—Sammler. Eine deutsch-jüdische Biographie. Cologne, 2006, p. 22, calls it "Capucines à la danse I"; citing letters in the Archives Matisse and Ref. Fourcade and Monod-Fontaine 1993, erroneously states that Glaser bought this painting in the summer of 1912 and sold it the following year.
Sabine Rewald in Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, pp. 200, 274–75, no. 185, ill. (color and bw), calls it "Nasturtiums with the Painting 'Dance'"; states that Flechtheim sold this picture to Oskar and Greta Moll.
Stephanie D'Alessandro in Stephanie D'Alessandro and John Elderfield. Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2010, pp. 43, 141, 177 n. 6, calls it "Nasturtiums with the Painting Dance"; notes that Eugène Druet photographed this picture in November 1913 for Flechtheim's exhibition catalogue [Exh. Düsseldorf 1913–14].
John Elderfield in Stephanie D'Alessandro and John Elderfield. Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2010, p. 116.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York, 2012, p. 401, ill. (color), as "Nasturtiums with the Painting 'Dance'".
Dorthe Aagesen and Rebecca Rabinow in Matisse: In Search of True Painting. Ed. Dorthe Aagesen and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. ix, 6–7.
Christel Hollevoet-Force and Mary Chan in Matisse: In Search of True Painting. Ed. Dorthe Aagesen and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. 204–5.
Rebecca Rabinow and Isabelle Duvernois in Matisse: In Search of True Painting. Ed. Dorthe Aagesen and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. 59–60, 62–66, 186 nn. 3, 5, p. 187 n. 15, no. 19, ill. (color), reproduce an infrared reflectogram of this picture revealing the sketch of a different studio scene; note that an error in the credit lines of the 1912 Salon d'Automne catalogue led to confusion over which version of "Nasturtiums" was exhibited, and confirm that the Pushkin version was shown in Paris, while the MMA version was shown in Exhs. London 1912 and New York-Chicago-Boston 1913.
Rebecca Rabinow in Matisse: In Search of True Painting. Ed. Dorthe Aagesen and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, p. 146.
Cécile Debray in Matisse. Paires et séries. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou. Paris, 2012, pp. 11, 14, 16, 18 n. 15.
Rebecca Rabinow in Matisse. Paires et séries. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou. Paris, 2012, pp. 75–76, 78–80 n. 7, ill. (color).
Yve-Alain Bois in Matisse. Paires et séries. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou. Paris, 2012, pp. 48, 53 nn. 5, 6.
Elsa Urtizverea in Matisse. Paires et séries. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou. Paris, 2012, p. 272.
Rémi Labrusse in Matisse. Paires et séries. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou. Paris, 2012, p. 241.
Isabelle Duvernois in Matisse. Paires et séries. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou. Paris, 2012, pp. 263–66, figs. 1 (color detail), 2 (color, reflectogram).
Kristina Wilson. "Fearing a 'Conservative Public': The Dial Collection in Worcester." American Art 27 (Fall 2013), fig. 2 (installation photo, Exh. Worcester 1924).
Kathryn Calley Galitz. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Masterpiece Paintings. New York, 2016, p. 520, ill. (color), colorpl. 431.
