Henri Matisse

Theodor and Ulla Ahrenberg, Stockholm

Sotheby’s, London, 7 July 1960, lot 24 (consigned by the above)

The Hanover Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale)

Pace Gallery, Boston

Wilfred P. and Rose Cohen, New York (acquired by 1984)

Pat and Irving C. Deal, Dallas (acquired by January 1986)

Acquired from the above on 2 January 1990 by the present owner

Paris, Maison de la Pensée française, Henri Matisse. Chapelle, peinture, dessins, sculptures, 1950, no. 90, p. 24 (dated 1906)

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Henri Matisse: Skulpturer, Malerier, Farveklip, 1953, no. 24, n.p., illustrated and illustrated on the cover

Helsinki, Taidehalli-Konsthallen; Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus and Rotterdam, Boymans Museum, Henri Matisse, 1954, no. 24, p. 2, illustrated; p. 13 

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Henri Matisse. Sculptures. Paintings. Drawings, 1954, no. 24, n.p., illustrated (dated 1906)

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Modern Utländsk Konst ur svenska privatsamlingar, 1954, no. 106, p. 23

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum and Helsinki, Helsingin Taidehalli, Henri Matisse, Apollon, 1957-58, no. 24/90 (Stockholm); no. 149 (Helsinki)

Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Apollon. Collection Theodor Ahrenberg, 1958, no. 149

Kunsthaus Zürich, Henri Matisse. Das Plastische Werk, 1959, no. 33, p. 14, illustrated (dated 1906)

Göteborg, Konsthallen, Henri Matisse ur Theodor Ahrenbergs Samling, 1960, no. 185

Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Henri Matisse Sculptor/Painter, 1984, no. 16, pp. 11, 15 and 72-74, p. 24, illustrated in color; p. 71, illustrated;

New York, C&M Arts, Henri Matisse: Sculpture, 1998, pl. 10, illustrated in color

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 2020-25 (long term loan)

Jean Selz, Modern Sculpture: Origins and Evolution, New York, 1963, pl. VIII, illustration in color of another cast; p. 278

Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Sculpture, London, 1964, fig. 27, p. 35, illustration of another cast; pp. 38 and 298 

Hilton Kramer, “Matisse as a Sculptor,” Boston Museum Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 336, 1966, fig. 4, p. 54, illustration of another cast; p. 55

Hjorvadur Harvard Arnason, History of Modern Art. Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, New York, 1968, fig. 178, p. 114; p. 115, illustration of another cast 

Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L’Opera di Matisse dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all'intimismo 1904-1928, Milan, 1971, no. S4, p. 108, illustration of another cast; p. 109

Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, pls. 109-110, p. 87, 90-91, 93, 95, 113 and 182; p. 88, illustrations of another cast; p. 111, illustration of another cast (in installation image of Paris, Galerie Pierre, Henri Matisse, 1930)

Ellen Charlotte Oppler, Fauvism Reexamined, New York and London, 1976, pl. 65, illustration of another cast; pp. 142-43, illustration of another cast

Theodore Reff, “Matisse: Meditations on a Statuette and Goldfish,” Arts, vol. 51, no. 3, November 1976, fig. 25, p. 115, illustration of another cast

Pierre Schneider, Matisse, Paris, 1984, pp. 170, 328, 548, 557, 564, 566; p. 549, illustration of another cast

Jack Flam, Matisse: The Man and His Art 1869-1918, Ithaca and London, 1986, fig. 236, pp. 270, 321, 426 and 494, note 47; p. 238, illustration of another cast

Jack Flam, ed., Matisse: A Retrospective, New York, 1988, p. 71, illustration of another cast; p. 133, illustration of another cast (in installation photograph of Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Tableaux du Maroc et sculptures, 1913)

Xavier Girard, Matisse. Une splendeur inouïe, Paris, 1993, p. 89

Walter Guadagnini, Matisse, Milan, 1993, p. 269, illustration of another cast

Albert Kostenevich and Natalia Semyonova, Collecting Matisse, Paris, 1993, p. 127 

Julie Harboe, European Art in the 20th Century: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1994, no. 48, pp. 8 and 102; p. 103, illustration of another cast

Frederick Hartt, A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, New York, 1994, fig. 35-5, p. 963; p. 964, illustration in color of another cast 

Guy Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Matisse: Henri Matisse Chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. I, Paris, 1995, pp. 88-89, illustration of another cast (in installation photograph of Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Tableaux du Maroc et sculptures, 1913); vol. II, no. 798, p. 1417, illustration of another cast (titled Figure assise et accoudée)

Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 41, p. XVIII and 375; pp. 110-11 and 113, illustrations of another cast

Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954, New York, 2005, p. 182

Rémi Labrusse and Jacqueline Munck, Matisse-Derain: La Vérité du Fauvisme, Paris, 2005, p. 168; p. 169, illustration in color of another cast

Éric Alliez and Jean-Claude Bonne, La Pensée-Matisse: portrait de l'artiste en hyperfauve, Paris, 2005, vol. I, p. 238; vol. II, pl. 44; illustration of another cast

Shirley Nielsen Blum, Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View, New York, 2010, no. 36, pp. 49-50, 54 and 186; p. 57, illustration of another cast (dated 1906-07)