1955.94: Lady with Flowers and Pomegranates

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

Permissions

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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

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