Henri Matisse

Estate of the artist

C&M Arts, New York

Acquired from the above on 15 December 1998 by the present owner

New York, C&M Arts, Henri Matisse, 1998, pl. 23, illustrated in color

Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers, 2008-09, no. 27b, fig. 47, pp. 50, 52 and 113; pp. 51 and 112, illustrations in color of another cast

Christian Zervos, ed., Cahiers d’art, July 1926, n.p., illustrations of the clay (in photographs of the artist’s studio)

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, New York, 1951, p. 217; p. 456, illustration of another cast (titled Stout Head (Grosse tête))

Gaston Diehl, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1958, pl. 3, p. 40, illustration of another cast; p. 117 (titled Grosse tête)

Raymond Escholier, Matisse: From the Life, London, 1960, p. 16, pl. 46, illustration of another cast (titled Grosse tête)

Herbert Read, Art and Alienation: The Role of the Artist in Society, London, 1967, p. 121

Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse: A Novel, vol. II, New York, 1971, fig. 105, p. 114, illustration of another cast (titled Big Head)

Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L’Opera di Matisse dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all'intimismo 1904-1928, Milan, 1971, no. S21, p. 108, illustration of another cast; p. 109

Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, pls. 221-22; pp. 164-65, illustrations of another cast; p. 111, illustration of another cast (in installation photograph of Paris, Galerie Pierre, Henri Matisse, 1930); pp. 166-67, illustration of the clay (in photographs with the artist); p. 170 (titled Henriette II (Grosse tête))

William Tucker, Early Modern Sculpture, New York, 1974, fig. 93, p. 97, illustration of the plaster; pp. 98 and 168

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, ed., Matisse: oeuvres de Henri Matisse, 1869-1954, Paris, 1979, no. 56, pp. 16 and 159, illustrations of another cast; p. 158

Pierre Schneider, Matisse, New York, 1984, pp. 536 and 562; p. 561, illustration of another cast

Jacqueline Guillaud and Maurice Guillaud, Matisse: Rhythm and Line, Paris and New York, 1987, no. 206, p. 188; p. 212, illustration of another cast

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Anne Baldassari and Claude Laugier, Matisse, Paris, 1989, no. 124, fig. g, p. 82, illustration of the clay (in photograph with the artist); p. 168, 334 and 336; pp. 335 and 337, illustrations of another cast

Ernst-Gerhard Güse, ed., Henri Matisse, Drawings and Sculpture, Munich, 1991, pl. 132, illustration of another cast; p. 193; p. 204, illustration of the clay (in photograph with the artist)

Gilles Néret, Matisse, Cologne, 1991, p. 140, illustration of another cast

Sarah Wilson, Matisse, New York, 1992, pp. 14 and 127; pl. 128, illustration of another cast

Xavier Girard, Matisse. Une splendeur inouïe, Paris, 1993, p. 102, illustration of the clay (in photograph with the artist) 

Walter Guadagnini, Matisse, Milan, 1993, p. 263; p. 280, illustration of another cast

Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 70, pp. XII-III, 200 and 370-71; pp. 201 and 203, illustrations of another cast; p. 254, illustration of another cast (in photograph of the artist’s Paris residence); p. 262, illustration of the clay (in photographs with the artist)

Jill Berk Jiminez, ed., Dictionary of Artists’ Models, London and Chicago, 2001, p. 144 (dated 1926-27)

Elizabeth Cowling, Picasso: Style and Meaning, London and New York, 2002, pp. 527 and 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. 282; p. 283, illustration of the clay (in photograph with the artist) (dated 1926)

Shirley Neilsen Blum, Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View, New York, 2010, p. 124, illustration of the clay (in photograph with the artist)