1943.874: The Plumed Hat

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.874

People

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

Title

The Plumed Hat

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1919

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297629

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

54 × 36.5 cm (21 1/4 × 14 3/8 in.)
frame: 78.7 × 59.1 × 1.9 cm (31 × 23 1/4 × 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l. r., graphite: Henri Matisse 1919
• inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 120[?] / 7

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[E. Weyhe, New York, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, 1925, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Copyright

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.874

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Henri Matisse, Cinquante dessins, Vildrac (Paris, 1920), pl. 17
• Margaretta Salinger, "White Plumes with Variations", Parnassus (December 1932), 4, pp. 9-10 (for series)
• Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1966), pp. 206, 427-29 (for series)
• Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse, roman (2 vols.), Gallimard (Paris, 1971), vol. 2, pp. 103-9, fig. 100
• Jack Flam, ed., Matisse on Art, Phaidon (New York, 1973), pg. 152 (for series)
• John Elderfield, Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1978), pp. 120-21 (for series)
• John Elderfield, The Drawings of Henri Matisse, Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, England, 1984), p. 263, under no. 50
• Hélène Toussaint, Les portraits d'Ingres: peintures des musées nationaux, exh. cat., Ministère de la Culture, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux (Paris, 1985), pp. 101-8 (for series)
• Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade, Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916-1930, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Harry N. Abrams (Washington, DC, 1986), pp. 24-25, 139-141 (for series)
• John Elderfield, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1992), p. 289 and nos. 233-38 (for series)
• Ulrike Gauss, ed., Henri Matisse: Zeichnungen und Gouaches Découpées, exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 107, 121-32 (for series)
• John Klein, Matisse Portraits, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 2001), pp. 225-26, 251-52 (for series)
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 88, repr. (color)
• Daniel M. Mendelowitz, David L. Faber, and Duane A. Wakeham, A Guide to Drawing, Thomson Wadsworth (Belmont, CA, 2007), fig. 2-19, pp. 30-31

Exhibition History

• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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