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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.94
People
Imitator of Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
Title
Lady with Flowers and Pomegranates
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1944
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297297

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
39.7 x 51.9 cm (15 5/8 x 20 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elmyr de Hory (as E. Raynal), Miami, Florida, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.94
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Clifford Irving, "Fake", Look (December 10, 1968), repr. pp 48-49
  • Clifford Irving, "Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time", McGraw-Hill (New York, 1969), pp. 68, 70, repr.
  • Ann E. Berman, "A Good Eye", MD: Medical News Magazine (May 1985), p. 144, repr. p. 141
  • Christopher Reed, "Wrong!", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, September 2004-October 2004), vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 40-51, pp. 44-45, ill. p. 45
  • Milton Esterow, "Fakes, Frauds, and Fake Fakers", Art News (June 2005), pp. 98-105, repr. p. 104
  • Peter C. Sutton, Nancy Hall-Duncan, Abigail D. Newman, and James Martin, Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Deception, exh. cat., Bruce Museum (Greenwich, CT, 2007), p. 156, fig. 1

Verification Level

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