Illustrated book (unbound, quarto), "Poésies" by Stéphane Mallarmé, with 29 etchings by Henri Matisse (published by Albert Skira et Cie, Lausanne, 1932); also extra suite of 29 etchings with "remarques;" In addition, 19 unpublished etchings
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Title:Illustrated book (unbound, quarto), "Poésies" by Stéphane Mallarmé, with 29 etchings by Henri Matisse (published by Albert Skira et Cie, Lausanne, 1932); also extra suite of 29 etchings with "remarques;" In addition, 19 unpublished etchings
Artist:Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)
Date:1932
Medium:Etchings
Edition:Unique copy apart from the edition of 145
Dimensions:Single book page: 13 x 9 7/8 in. (33 x 25.1 cm) Book cover: 13 3/8 x 10 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (34 x 26.7 x 5.7 cm)
Classification:Prints
Credit Line:Purchase, Eugene and Clare Thaw Gift, in honor of Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse, 2003
Marking: Printed after title page: EXEMPLAIRE DE COLLABORATEUR/ NUMÉRO
the artist (1932–probably until d. 1954); probably his son, Jean Matisse (from 1954); [Sims Reed Ltd., London, until 2003; sold to MMA]
Elisabeth Luther Cary. "Manet as Seen Through His Prints. Matisse Etchings." New York Times (December 25, 1932), p. X11.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Art in Review." New York Times (December 3, 1932), p. 20 (not this edition).
Adelyn D. Breeskin. "Swans by Matisse." American Magazine of Art 28 (October 1935), pp. 622, 628, ill. p. 629 ("The Swan" etching; not this edition; collection Baltimore Museum of Art).
Albert Skira, ed. Anthologie du livre illustrée par les peintres et sculpteurs de l'école de Paris. Geneva, 1946, p. 75, no. 256, pls. 52–55 (unknown edition).
Henri Matisse. "Comment j'ai fait mes livres." Anthologie du livre illustrée par les peintres et sculpteurs de l'école de Paris. Ed. Albert Skira. Geneva, 1946, pp. XXI–XXII.
Monroe Wheeler. Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators. New York, 1947, pp. 15, 17, 107, ill. pp. 60–61 (unknown edition).
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Matisse: His Art and His Public. New York, 1951, pp. 244–46, ill. p. 247 (not this edition; collection Museum of Modern Art, New York).
William S. Lieberman. Matisse: 50 Years of His Graphic Art. New York, 1956, pp. 12, 26–27, 29, ill. pp. 137–41 (not this edition; collection Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Eleanor M. Garvey. The Artist and the Book, 1860–1960 in Western Europe and the United States. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 1961, pp. 136–38, no. 196, ill. (not this edition; collection Harvard College Library).
W. J. Strachan. The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d'artiste. New York, 1969, pp. 38, 64, 66, 88, 303, 306, 338, ill. p. 65 (not this edition; collection Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
John Elderfield. Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, including Remainder-Interest and Promised Gifts. New York, 1978, p. 170.
Riva Castleman in John Elderfield. Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, including Remainder-Interest and Promised Gifts. New York, 1978, pp. 130, 139–42, ill. (not this edition).
Jack D. Flam. Matisse on Art. (1st ed., 1973). New York, 1978, pp. 107–8, 170 n. 3, ill. frontispiece (unknown edition) [published translation of Ref. Matisse 1946].
Philip Larson. "The Exotic Ladies of Henri Matisse—Late 1920s, Early 1930s." Print Collector's Newsletter 14 (July–August 1983), pp. 79–81, ill. (not this edItion; collection Baltimore Museum of Art).
Carol Hogben and Rowan Watson, ed. From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists' Illustrated Books. London, 1985, pp. 236–37, no. 95, ill. (not this edition; collection Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
Carol Hogben. "Introduction." From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists' Illustrated Books. Ed. Carol Hogben and Rowan Watson. London, 1985, p. 25.
Margrit Hahnloser. Matisse: The Graphic Work. New York, 1987, pp. 136–47, nos. 65–70, ill. (not this edition).
Claude Duthuit with Françoise Garnaud. Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages illustrés. Paris, 1988, pp. 3, 16–18, 433–34, no. 5, ill. pp. 15, 19–34.
Jean Guichard-Meili in Claude Duthuit with Françoise Garnaud. Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages illustrés. Paris, 1988, pp. XIII–XIV, XVI–XIX, XXXII, 412–17, 429.
Nicholas Watkins. "London: Matisse at Waddington Graphics." Burlington Magazine 130 (December 1988), pp. 942–43.
Christine Dixon and Cathy Leahy. Manet to Matisse: French Illustrated Books. Exh. cat., Australian National Gallery. Canberra, 1991, pp. 55–56, 63, ill. pp. 53–54 (not this edition; collection Australian National Gallery, Canberra).
Riva Castleman. A Century of Artists Books. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1994, pp. 30, 48, 92–93, 241, ill. (not this edition; collection Museum of Modern Art, New York).
John Klein. "Matisse After Tahiti: The Domestication of Exotic Memory." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 60, no. 1 (1997), pp. 52–54, fig. 10 (not this edition; collection Baltimore Museum of Art).
Magdalena Dabrowski in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 2002–2003." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 61 (Fall 2003), p. 49, ill.
Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)
1900–1903
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