Signature: Signed, L.R.: H. Matisse

Henri Matisse, Paris (1904 - his d. 1954); Estate of Henri Matisse (1955); Pierre Matisse, New York (from the estate of Henri Matisse, June 1955 - his d. 1989); his widow, Maria-Gaetana Matisse, née von Spreti, New York (1989 - her d. 2001); Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Foundation (2002; gift to MMA).

"Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966," UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, January 5-February 27, 1966, Art Institute of Chicago, March 11-April 25, 1966, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 5-July 3, 1966 (this venue had its own catalogue, see below), exh. cat. with essays by Jean Leymarie, Herbert Read, and William S. Liebermann, no. 17, pp. 45 (ill.), 184;

"Henri Matisse" (venue of UCLA 1966), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 5-July 3, 1966, exh. cat. with excerpts from a letter by Henri Matisse to Mr. Henri Clifford, and "Notes of a Painter" by Henri Matisse, no. 17;

"Henri Matisse, exposition du centenaire," Grand Palais, Paris, April 21-September 21, 1970, exh. cat. by Pierre Schneider, no. 56, ill. p. 142;

"Henri Matisse: A Retrospective," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 24, 1992-January 12, 1993, exh. cat. by John Elderfield with Beatrice Kernan, chronology compiled by Judith Cousins, no. 43, ill. p. 124;

"I Fauves e la critica: uno scandalo annunciato," Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, February 5-May 16, 1999, and "Les Fauves et la critique," Musée de Lodève, Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, Lodève, May 28-September 26, 1999, exh. cat. with essays by Claudine Grammont and Maïthé Vallès-Bled, no. 15, pp. 80-81, ill.;

"The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exh. in three parts, May 18, 2004-June 26, 2005, no cat. (see MMA Bulletin 2004);

"La Colección Pierre & Maria-Gaetana Matisse en The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York / The Pierre & Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," Museo Picasso, Malaga, March 26-June 24, 2007, exh. cat. edited by Bernardo Laniado-Romero, texts by Pierre Schneider and Jonathan Pascoe Pratt, ill. p. 123 no. 21, pp. 174-174 no. 21.

Mario Luzi and Massimo Carra, L'opera di Matisse: Dalla rivolta 'fauve' all'intimismo 1904-1928 (Milan 1971), no. 28, p. 86, ill.; re-edited as Tout l'oeuvre peint de Matisse, 1904-1928, with introduction by Pierre Schneider, documentation by Massimo Carrà (Paris 1982), ibid.;

Pierre Schneider, Matisse, transl. by Michael Taylor and Bridget Strevens Romer (Paris & New York 1984 and 1992), p. 193; also revised edition (Paris & London 2002), ibid.;

Jack Flam, Matisse: The Man and his Art, 1869-1918 (Ithaca and London 1986), pp. 112, 114, pl. 98;

Sophie Monneret. Matisse. Paris, 1994, p. 88, no. 36, ill.

Laurent Leroy, "Le Fauvisme et la critique" (review of Lodeve 1999 exh), L'Humanité, (September 18, 1999);

Magdalena Dabrowski, William S. Lieberman, and Sabine Rewald, "Selections from the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 61, no. 4 (Spring 2004), pp. 26-27, ill.;

Ph. D., "Pierre Matisse, un fils très digne" (review of MMA 2004) Connaissance des Arts, no. 617 (June 2004), ill. p. 34 ;

Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, "Matisse et le néo-impressionnisme," in: Henri Matisse, émerveillement pour le sud, exh. cat., Musée de L'Annonciade, Saint Tropez, 2004, pp. 34, 38-39, ills. figs. 16, 18;

David Minthorn, "Met Unveils Gifts from Matisse Son," Deseret News, Salt Lake City (May 23, 2004).
Magdalena Dabrowski in The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection. The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection (New York, 2009), pp. 83-84, 157-58, ill.