Henri Matisse

Estate of the artist

Heinz Berggruen, Paris (acquired by 1954)

The Hanover Gallery, London

Lillian Florsheim (née Hyman), Chicago (acquired by 1961)

Mary-Elizabeth Jones (née Florsheim), California (acquired by descent from the above)

Acquired from the above on 1 June 1989 by the present owner

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

Christian Zervos, ed., “Sculptures des peintres d’aujourd’hui,” Cahiers d’art, 1928, p. 179, illustration of another cast

Pierre Courthion, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1934, pl. LVIII, illustration of another cast 

Ragnar Josephson and Erik Wettergren, eds., Expressionism, Stockholm, 1947, fig. 8, p. 15, illustration of the terracotta

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, New York, 1951, pp. 94, 100, 140, 164, 205 and 217; p. 337, illustration of another cast (titled Reclining Nude, I (Nu couché, 1er état))

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Buffalo, 1952, pp. 16 and 24; p. 59, illustration of another cast

Clement Greenberg, Matisse, New York, 1953, pl. 32, illustration of another cast

Giulio Carlo Argan, “Matisse scultore,” Rivista trimestrale dell'Ente della Biennale, vol. 6, no. 26, December 1955, p. 33 

Gaston Diehl, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1958, pl. 4, p. 39, illustration of another cast; pp. 41 and 117 (dated 1928)

Raymond Escholier, Matisse: From the Life, London, 1960, p. 15

Giuseppe Marchiori, Modern French Sculpture, London, 1964, p. 14, pl. X, illustration of another cast; pl. XI, illustration in color of another cast (detail)

Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Sculpture, New York, 1964, fig. 33, p. 31, illustration of another cast; p. 298

Jean Guichard-Meili, Matisse, Paris, 1967, fig. 160, pp. 166 and 250; p. 168, illustration of another cast 

Herbert Read, Art and Alienation: The Role of the Artist in Society, London, 1967, pp. 117-18 and 171; pl. 30, illustration of another cast

Hjorvadur Harvard Arnason, History of Modern Art. Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, New York, 1968, fig. 155; pp. 103 and 114-15; p. 104, illustration of another cast

Robert Goldwater, What is Modern Sculpture?, Greenwich, 1969, p. 18, illustration of another cast; pp. 19 and 144

Henry Grosinsky, “The Sculpture of Matisse,” Life, vol. 69, no. 11, 11 September 1970, p. 42, illustration in color of the terracotta; p. 43 

Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L’Opera di Matisse dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all'intimismo 1904-1928, Milan, 1971, no. S3, p. 108, illustration of another cast; p. 109

Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, pls. 89-91; pp. 71, 76, 93, 105, 153 and 157; pp. 73-75, illustrations of another cast

John Jacobus, Henri Matisse, New York, 1973, fig. 16, pp. 23, 25, 54 and 144; p. 24, illustration of another cast

William Tucker, Early Modern Sculpture, New York, 1974, fig. 84, pp. 92, 96, and 168; p. 91, illustration of another cast

Theodore Reff, “Matisse: Meditations on a Statuette and Goldfish,” Arts, vol. 51, no. 3, November 1976, fig. 9, p. 109 and 111; p. 112, illustration of another cast

John Elderfield, The Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse, New York, 1978, p. 121, illustration of the plaster (in photograph of the artist’s studio)

Lawrence Gowing, Matisse, New York and Toronto, 1979, no. 52, p. 71, illustration of another cast; pp. 74-76 and 207

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, ed., Matisse: oeuvres de Henri Matisse, 1869-1954, Paris, 1979, no. 51, pp. 15 and 147, illustrations of another cast; p. 146

Marcel Giry, Le Fauvisme: ses origines, son évolution, Neuchâtel, 1981, p. 188

Douglas Mannering,

The Art of Matisse, London and New York, 1982, p. 39

Pierre Schneider, Matisse, New York, 1984, pp. 330, 339, note 28, 348-50, 391-92, 394, 399, 416, note 32, 420, 431, 461, 489, 493, note, 80, 524, 536, 541, 544-45, 557, and 566-67; pp. 342 and 546, illustrations of another cast 

Nicolas Watkins, Matisse, New York, 1985, pl. 61, p. 81, illustration in color of another cast; p. 82, 111, 139, 165 and 234

Jack Flam, Matisse: The Man and His Art 1869-1918, Ithaca and London, 1986, fig. 187, pp. 191, 196, 279, 343, 452 and 491, notes 3-4 and 20-21; p. 192, illustration of another cast

Françoise Leroy, “Matisse tout entier,” Esprit, vol. 2, no. 111, February 1986, p. 27

Jacqueline Guillaud and Maurice Guillaud, Matisse: Rhythm and Line, Paris and New York, 1987, p. 313, illustration of another cast (in photograph of Claribel Cone and Etta Cone’s residence)

Jack Flam, ed., Matisse: A Retrospective, New York, 1988, p. 65, illustration of another cast

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Anne Baldassari and Claude Laugier, Matisse, Paris, 1989, no. 118, pp. 162, 318 and 320-21; p. 319, illustrations of another cast

Jean Selz, Matisse, New York, 1990, p. 29, illustration of the terracotta

Rosamond Bernier, Matisse, Picasso, Miró as I Knew Them, New York, 1991, p. 73, illustration of another cast (dated 1906-07) 

Ernst-Gerhard Güse, ed., Henri Matisse, Drawings and Sculpture, Munich, 1991, pl. 113, illustration of another cast; p. 193 

James D. Herbert, Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics, New Haven and London, 1992, fig. 83, p. 159, illustration of another cast

Sarah Wilson, Matisse, New York, 1992, pp. 14, 28 and 126; pl. 39, illustration of another cast

Xavier Girard, Matisse. Une splendeur inouïe, Paris, 1993, pp. 50-51, illustration in color of another cast 

Hayden Herrera, Matisse: A Portrait, New York, 1993, p. 68; p. 69, illustration of another cast (dated 1906-07)

Walter Guadagnini, Matisse, Milan, 1993, pp. 16, 107 and 262; p. 266, illustration of another cast

Guy Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Matisse: Henri Matisse Chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. II, Paris, 1995, no. 792, p. 1411, illustration of another cast (titled Femme couchée (nu couché))

Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 30, pp. XVIII-IV, 74, 76 and 375-76; pp. 75 and 77, illustrations of another cast; p. 254, illustration of another cast (in photograph of the artist’s Paris residence)

Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Early Years 1869-1908, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998, p. 373, illustration of another cast; pp. 374 and 378 (dated 1906-07); p. 383, illustration of another cast (in photograph of the residence of Sarah and Michael Stein)

Pierre Daix, Picasso et Matisse revisités, Neuchâtel, 2002, p. 62 

Jack Flam,

Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, New York, 2003, pp. 73, 81, 112 and 152

Éric Alliez and Jean-Claude Bonne, La Pensée-Matisse: portrait de l'artiste en hyperfauve, Paris, 2005, vol. I, pp. 230, 236-37 and 239; vol. II, pl. 46, illustration of another cast

Rémi Labrusse and Jacqueline Munck, Matisse-Derain: La Vérité du Fauvisme, Paris, 2005, pp. 199, 277, 278 and 280; p. 282, illustration in color of another cast (dated 1906-07)

Oliver Berggruen and Max Hollein, eds., Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors, Masterpieces from the Late Years, Munich, Berlin, London, et al., 2006, frontispiece, illustration of the plaster (in photograph of the artist’s studio)

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

Pierre Courthion; Serge Guilbaut, ed., Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview, Los Angeles, 2013, pl. 11, pp. 86, 163 and 293, p. 162, illustration in color of another cast