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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.75
People
Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
Title
Mademoiselle Roudenko (Dancer of the Ballets Russes)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Mademoiselle Roudenko, no. 4 (Dancer of the Ballets Russes)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1939
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297523

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
47.8 x 31.4 cm (18 13/16 x 12 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Henri Matisse (1939-1948), sold; to Maurice Wertheim, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906
Copyright
© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.75
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 204, repr. as pl. VIII
  • The Maurice Wertheim Catalogue: Modern French Art-- Monet to Picasso, exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC, 1960), p. 64, repr. p. 65
  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso, exh. cat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX, 1962), p. 58, pl. 23
  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection, brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), checklist no. 28
  • John O'Brian, Degas to Matisse: the Maurice Wertheim Collection, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Fogg Art Museum (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1988), pp. 122-125, repr. p. 124
  • Henri Matisse: Dessins Collection du Musée Matisse, exh. cat., Musée Matisse and Editions Adrien Maeght (Nice, France, 1988), under no. 48
  • "Exhibitions", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Winter 1993 - Winter 1994), vol. I, no. 2, repr. p. 26
  • John O'Brian, Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 1999), p. 91
  • Elizabeth M. Rudy, "Researching the Wertheim Collection at the Harvard Art Museums", Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (Summer 2014), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 301-6
  • Matthew Affron, Matisse in the 1930s, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, 2022), p. 247

Exhibition History

  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Modern French Art--Monet to Picasso, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 06/17/1960 - 09/04/1960
  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 06/13/1962 - 09/02/1962
  • The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/29/1992 - 03/07/1993
  • The Portrait, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2004 - 01/09/2005
  • Matisse in the 1930s, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 10/15/2022 - 01/29/2023

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