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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.306
People
Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
Title
Two Girl Musicians
Other Titles
Alternate Title: La Musique
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1921
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296536

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 38.8 x 28 cm (15 1/4 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): Graphite, recto
    : LLC: 38 / Soxx / La Musique

    LRC: Henri - Matisse
  • (not assigned): Verso, graphite: ULC: #4 Center: 3 1/2 Marq / 18 x 22

    LL: 343
  • watermark: Upper right side: BMB

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Valentine Dudensing, New York, New York]. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), by 1929, 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
1965.306
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 733, fig. 393

Exhibition History

  • Untitled exhibition of French drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/08/1943 - 11/21/1943
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Henri Matisse Retrospective, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, 01/05/1966 - 02/27/1966; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 03/11/1966 - 04/24/1966; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/11/1966 - 06/26/1966

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