Henri Matisse

Estate of the artist

Private Collection

Sotheby’s, New York, 15 November 1989, lot 50 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Christie’s, New York, 7 September 1995, lot 42

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

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

Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse: A Novel, vol. II, New York, 1971, fig. 103, p. 113, illustration of another cast (titled Smiling Head and dated 1927)

Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L’Opera di Matisse dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all'intimismo 1904-1928, Milan, 1971, no. S22, p. 108, illustration of another cast; p. 109

Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, pls. 226-27; pp. 168-69, illustrations of another cast; p. 170

William Tucker, Early Modern Sculpture, New York, 1974, fig. 94, p. 97, illustration of another cast; p. 168

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, ed., Matisse: oeuvres de Henri Matisse, 1869-1954, Paris, 1979, p. 158

Peter Selz, Art in Our Times. A Pictorial History 1890-1980, New York, 1981, fig. 728, p. 278, illustration of another cast; p. 279 (titled Grosse tête (Henriette) and dated circa 1927)

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

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Anne Baldassari and Claude Laugier, Matisse, Paris, 1989, fig. d, p. 334; p. 336, illustration of another cast

Ernst-Gerhard Güse, ed., Henri Matisse, Drawings and Sculpture, Munich, 1991, pl. 133, illustration of another cast; p. 193

Sarah Wilson, Matisse, New York, 1992, pp. 14 and 127; pl. 129, illustration of another cast

Walter Guadagnini, Matisse, Milan, 1993, p. 263; p. 281, illustration of another cast

Gilles Néret, Henri Matisse, Cologne, 1996, p. 140, illustration of another cast 

Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 75, p. 212; pp. 213 and 215, illustrations of another cast

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, pp. 274 and 282