MATISSE, Henri

Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord 1869 - Nice, Alpes-Maritimes 1954

Maker: Valsuani, C.

Jeannette II

Jeannette II

1910, cast 1952

bronze

head

Dimensions (HxWxD): 10 ³⁄₈ x 8 ⁷⁄₈ x 10 ¹⁄₄ in.

signed and numbered back center: HM 7
foundry's mark back in hairdo: CIRE / C. VALSUANI / PERDUE

Acc. No.: 66.3466

Credit Line: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Photo credit: 2012 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

© Artist : Fair Use (Section 107, Copyright Act 1976)

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

www.hirshhorn.si.edu

Provenance

• The Artist
• Stockholm, Mr. and Mrs. Theodor Ahrenberg
• New York, Mayewski Collection
• 17 March 1962, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Sale no. 2096, no. 47, ill.
• To 24 March 1964, New York, Staempfli Gallery
• 24 March 1966-17 May 1966, New York, Joseph H. Hirshhorn
• 1966, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn

Bibliography

• 1997 Duthuit n° 51 épreuve n° 7
  Claude Duthuit, avec la collaboration de Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, préface d'Yve-Alain Bois, Paris, 1997, p. 142-145, n° 51, épreuve n° 7
• Museum's website, 2010
• 1966 Read
  Herbert Read, "The Sculpture of Matisse", Henri Matisse, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1966, p. 23
• 1966 Seldis
  Henry J. Seldis, Matisse Sculpture Carves Niche in Fame", Los Angeles Times Calendar, 6 February 1966, p. 2
• 1966 Seldis
  Henry J. Seldis, "The Magic of Matisse", Apollo 83/50, April 1966, p. 252
• 1967 Read
  Herbert Read, Art and Alienation, the Role of the Artist in Society, New York, Viking, 1967, p. 119, ill. 32
• 1974 Lerner
  Abram Lerner et al., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1974, fig. 202, p. 156, p. 721
• 1974 Lynes
  Russell Lynes, "Modern Art Arrives on the Mall in a New Museum and Sculpture Garden", Smithsonian 5, December 1974, colorplate p. 41
• 1975 Hudson
  Andrew Hudson, "Washington Letter", Art International 19/6, 15 June 1975, p. 100

Exhibitions

• Museum's website, 2010
  
  1962 New York
  Recent Acquisitions, New York, Staempfli Gallery, 18 September-13 October 1962, cover ill.
  
  1964 New York
  Stone Wood Metal, New York, Staempfli Gallery, 25 February-21 March 1964, cat. ill.
  
  1966 Los Angeles/Chicago/Boston
  Henri Matisse, University of California at Los Angeles, Art Galleries, 5 January-27 February 1966; Art Institute of Chicago, 11 March-24 April 1966; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 11 May-26 June 1966, no. 117, ill. p. 132
  
  1974-1975 Washington
  Inaugural Exhibition, Washington, DC., Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 202, p. 156, p. 721
  
  1995 Taipei/Shiga/Tokyo/Iwaki City/Takamatsu City
  The Human figure Interpreted: Modern Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 25 March-28 May 1995; Shiga, Museum of Modern Art, 1 July-6 August 1995; Tokyo, Odakyu Museum, 9-27 August 1995; Iwaki City Art Museum, 23 September-5 November; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 10 November-10 December 1995, no. 25, ill. p. 72
  
  2008 Baltimore
  Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, Baltimore Museum of Art, 28 October-3 February 2008, [Baltimore only]
  
  2008-2009 Stuttgart/Hamburg
  Matisse: People, Masks, Models, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 27 September 2008-11 January 2009; Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Form, 31 January-19 April 2009, no. 18, ill. p. 118; pp. 18, 205, 216

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