Henri Matisse (until d. 1954); his son, Jean Matisse, Pontoise (1954–d. 1976); his widow, Marie Matisse, Pontoise (1976–d. 1999; her estate, 1999–2001; her estate sale, Martinot, Savignat, et Antoine, Pontoise, December 15, 2001, no. 208, as "Matisse peignant [Madame Matisse au Kimono]," sold to Schmit); [Galerie Schmit, Paris, 2001–4; sold to MMA]
Marseilles. Musée Cantini. "Quelque chose de plus que la couleur: Le dessin fauve 1900–1908," June 22–September 29, 2002, no. 160 (as "Matisse peignant 'Madame Matisse en japonaise au bord de l'eau,'" lent by a private collection, with the Galerie Schmit, Paris).
New York. Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street. "International Fine Art Fair," May 9–14, 2003, not in catalogue (exhibited by Galerie Schmit, Paris).
Le Cateau-Cambrésis. Musée Matisse. "Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un été fauve," October 22, 2005–January 22, 2006, no. 97 (as "Matisse peignant Madame Matisse en Japonaise au bord de l'eau").
Anne Baldassari inMatisse: Oeuvres de Henri Matisse. Paris, 1989, p. 142, fig. d, calls it "Matisse peignant Madame Matisse en Japonaise au bord de l'eau" and locates it in a private collection.
Judi Freeman. The Fauve Landscape. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1990, pl. 85, calls it "Matisse peignant Madame Matisse en Japonaise au bord de l'eau (Matisse Painting Madame Matisse in a Japanese Robe at the Seashore)".
Sarah Whitfield. Fauvism. London, 1991, pp. 67, 209, fig. 48, calls it "Matisse Painting his Wife" and locates it in a private collection.
John Elderfield. Henri Matisse: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1992, ill. p. 134, calls it "Matisse Painting Mme Matisse in a Japanese Robe at the Seashore" and locates it in a private collection.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine and Claude Laugier inHenri Matisse 1904–1917. Exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris, 1993, ill. p. 68, call it "Matisse peignant Madame Matisse en Japonaise au bord de l'eau" and locate it in a private collection.
Bernard Zürcher. Les Fauves. Paris, 1995, ill. p. 93, calls it "Matisse peignant Madame Matisse en Japonaise au bord de l'eau" and locates it in a private collection.
Pierre Schneider. Matisse. Rev. ed. (English ed., 1984). Paris, 2002, ill. p. 239, calls it "Matisse peignant madame Matisse en 'Japonaise au bord de l'eau" and locates it in a private collection.
Claudine Grammont and Véronique Serrano inQuelque chose de plus que la couleur: Le dessin fauve 1900–1908. Ed. Véronique Serrano and Claudine Grammont. Exh. cat., Musée Cantini, Marseilles. Paris, 2002, p. 253, no. 160, ill. p. 177 (color).
Susan Alyson Stein inVincent van Gogh: The Drawings. Exh. cat., Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. New York, 2005, p. 33, fig. 48.
Joséphine Matamoros inMatisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un été fauve. Exh. cat., Musée départemental d'Art moderne, Céret. [Paris], 2005, p. 18.
Jack Flam inMatisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un été fauve. Exh. cat., Musée départemental d'Art moderne, Céret. [Paris], 2005, pp. 33, 36, 290 n. 8, p. 295, no. 97, ill. pp. 32, 164 (color).
Rémi Labrusse and Jacqueline Munck. Matisse-Derain: La Vérité du fauvisme. Paris, 2005, p. 229, fig. 179, call it "Matisse peignant Madame Matisse en Japonaise au bord de l'eau" and date it July 1905.
Rémi Labrusse in Rémi Labrusse and Jacqueline Munck. Matisse-Derain: La Vérité du fauvisme. Paris, 2005, p. 38.
Jacqueline Munck in Rémi Labrusse and Jacqueline Munck. Matisse-Derain: La Vérité du fauvisme. Paris, 2005, p. 190.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine in Dita Amory and Ann Dumas. Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2023, pp. 35, 183, colorpl. 35 and ill. p. 8 (color detail).
James Panero. "A Study in Contrasts." New Criterion 42 (December 2023), p. 15.
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