Henri Matisse

Estate of the artist

Lumley Cazalet, Ltd., London

Christie’s, New York, 11 May 1989, lot 338

John and Paul Herring, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above on 3 March 1994 by the present owner

Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers, 2008-09, no. 27a, fig. 47, pp. 50 and 52; pp. 51 and 112, illustrated in color

Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, pl. 219, p. 161; p. 163, illustration of another cast (titled Henriette I (Grosse tête))

William Tucker, Early Modern Sculpture, New York, 1974, fig. 92, p. 97, illustration of another cast; p. 168 

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, ed., Matisse: oeuvres de Henri Matisse, 1869-1954, Paris, 1979, fig. a, p. 158, illustration of another cast

Pierre Schneider, Matisse, New York, 1984, pp. 536 and 561-62; p. 560, illustration of another cast

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Anne Baldassari and Claude Laugier, Matisse, Paris, 1989, fig. a, p. 334, illustration of another cast

Ernst-Gerhard Güse, ed., Henri Matisse, Drawings and Sculpture, Munich, 1991, pl. 131, illustration of another cast; p. 193 (titled Henriette I (Bulky Head))

Sarah Wilson, Matisse, New York, 1992, p. 14

Walter Guadagnini, Matisse, Milan, 1993, p. 263; p. 279, illustration of another cast

Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 66, pp. XIV, 190, 192 and 371; pp. 191 and 193, illustrations of another cast

Pierre Daix, Pour une histoire culturelle de l'art moderne: Le XXe siècle, Paris, 2000, p. 228 (titled Grosse tête (Henriette I) and dated 1927)

Elizabeth Cowling, Picasso: Style and Meaning, London and New York, 2002, p. 670, note 167

John Elderfield, ed., Visions of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, pp. 63 and 326 

Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954, New York, 2005, p. 274 (titled Henriette)