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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.174
People
Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
Title
Madeleine I
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1901
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/21384

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
59.4 cm (23 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, sold; to Mr. and Mrs. M. Victor Leventritt; bequest of Frances Leventritt to Fogg Museum, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances Leventritt in honor and in memory of M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935
Copyright
© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.174
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Small bronze sculpture of a female figure in marked contrapposto with arms crossed.

Publication History

  • Albert Edward Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York), pp. 49-56, fig. 51-56
  • Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1966), pp. 48-49, 52, 305, repr.
  • Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, exh. cat., Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, 1984), fig. 5
  • Claude Duthuit, Henri Matisse: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Sculpte (Paris, 1997), No. 8
  • Jack Flam, Matisse in the Cone Collection: The Poetics of Vision, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 2001), pp. 31, 33-34, fig. 8
  • Collection(s), Matisse Museum (Le Cateau-Cambresis, France, 2002), p. 85
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 182, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S118 European & American Art since 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/13/2008 - 04/09/2011

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