The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Espagnole: Harmonie en bleu (Spanish Woman: Harmony in Blue)

Espagnole: Harmonie en bleu (Spanish Woman: Harmony in Blue)

Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)

Date:: 1923
Culture:: French
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 x 14 in. (47 x 35.6 cm)
Classification:: Paintings
Credit Line:: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number:: 1975.1.193

This artwork is not on display

Description

The Lehman painting belongs to a small series of works in which Matisse depicts Henriette Darricarrère in a frontal pose, almost as if he were executing a formal portrait. In each case, she appears before a different fabric background and is outfitted in various costumes and accessories with ethnic associations; often, as here, she is dressed as a Spanish woman. A preparatory charcoal drawing by Matisse of the same size as the painting is in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National de l'Art Moderne, Paris.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: Signed (in black pencil or with thin brush and black paint) at lower right: Henri Matisse
Provenance

Acquired (as Femme en buste dans les fleurs) from the artist by Josse Bernheim-Jeune and his brother Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Fontainebleau and Paris, March 30, 1923; Gaston Bernheim de Villers (Gaston Bernheim-Jeune), 1937; acquired (as L'Espagnole) from Sam Salz, New York, by Robert Lehman, Port Washington, New York, November 1948.
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