1965.307: A Lady with a Necklace

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.307

People

Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)

Title

A Lady with a Necklace

Other Titles

Alternate Title: The Embroidered Blouse

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1936

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296398

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 56.9 x 45.2 cm (22 3/8 x 17 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, center, graphite: 20 [circled]
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 453 565 / 52 x 45 1/2 / [illegible] 1372
• inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: IC[?]
• watermark: Arches [in cursive] [monogram]
• label: removed from backing board: The Royal Academy of Arts / Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams / 5 March to 30 May 2005 / Henri Matisse Key No. 72 Cat. No. 55 / Woman in an Embroidered Blouse with Necklace / Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Bequest of Meta and Paul J Sachs

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Paul Rosenberg, Paris], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1938, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Copyright

© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.307

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• [reproductions of Matisse drawings], Cahiers d'Art, XI, 1936, repr.
• Raymond Escholier, Henri Matisse, Henri Floury (Paris, France, 1937), p. 157
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 735, fig. 394
• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 49
• Bryan Holme, ed., Master Drawings, The Studio Publications Incorporated (New York, NY and London, England, 1943), pl. 119
• Léo Swane, Henri Matisse, P.A. Norstedt and Söners Forlag (Stockholm, 1944), p. 109
• Léo Swane, Matisse, Jespersen og Pios Forlag (Copenhagen, 1945), p. 119
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 26
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 73, repr.
• Clifford Irving, "Fake", Look (December 10, 1968), repr. p. 55
• "The Sculpture of Matisse", Life [magazine] (February 6, 1970), repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 99, n.p., pl. 99, repr.
• Ann E. Berman, "A Good Eye", MD: Medical News Magazine (May 1985), repr. p. 141
• Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 302, p. 258, repr.
• Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 34 under "Metal nib pen"
• Christopher Reed, "Wrong!", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, September 2004-October 2004), vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 40-51, pp. 44-45, ill. p. 44
• Matisse et la couleur des tissus, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts and Editions Gallimard (London, Paris, 2004), cat. no. 55, repr. (color)
• Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: the fabric of dreams, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2004), cat. no. 55, repr. (color), p. 188
• Christian Zervos and Tristan Tzara, Henri Matisse Drawings 1936: A Facsimile Edition, George Braziller (New York, 2005), repr.
• Isabel Seligman, Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now, exh. cat., Thames & Hudson (London, 2016), pp. 26-29, fig. 19, ill.

Exhibition History

• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• Henri Matisse: Dessins et sculpture, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 05/29/1975 - 09/07/1975
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• The Sculpture and Drawings of Henri Matisse, Tate Britain, London, 10/03/1984 - 01/06/1985
• The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
• The Fabric of Dreams: Matisse, His Art and His Textiles, Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambresis, 10/23/2004 - 02/13/2005; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/05/2005 - 05/30/2005

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