M12169: The Sword Swallower
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M12169
- People
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Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
- Title
- The Sword Swallower
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: L'Avaleur de Sabres
Series/Book Title: Jazz (Paris, Teriade, 1947) - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1947
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/265903
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Pochoir
- Dimensions
- folded sheet: 42 x 32.5 cm (16 9/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Pierre Berès, Paris, France], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, April 2, 1948.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- D. 22
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund
- Copyright
- © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1948
- Object Number
- M12169
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- David Bindman, Suzanne Blier, and Vera Grant, ed., Art of Jazz: Form, Performance, Notes, exh. cat., Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 61, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
- Art of Jazz: Form, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016
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