Henriette Darricarrère, a dancer and musician in Nice, posed for Matisse from 1920 until her marriage seven years later. He painted several versions of this composition, in which Henriette stands beside his hotel window, looking out towards the promenade des Anglais and the baie des Anges.
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[Valentine Gallery, New York, until 1931; sold on January 27, 1931, for $9,000, as "La Blouse Verte," to Soby]; James Thrall Soby, West Hartford and Farmington, Conn. (1931–40; on consignment to Pierre Matisse Gallery, November 20, 1937, consignment no. 968; sold in exchange for two de Chirico paintings, on December 30, 1940, as "Girl with Green Blouse," stock no. 708, to P. Matisse); [Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1940–41; stock no. 1032; sold on April 30, 1941, for $3,600, to Roullier]; [Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, 1941; sold on April 30, 1941 to Patterson]; Alice Higinbotham Patterson, Chicago (from 1941; her gift to Arlen); her granddaughter, Alice Albright Arlen, New York (until 1994; jointly with MMA, 1994–97; her gift to MMA)
Hartford. Wadsworth Atheneum. "Modern French Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Thrall Soby," May–October 1934, unnumbered cat. (as "La Blouse Verte," c. 1923).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Recent Acquisitions: 1993–1995," July 28–September 24, 1995, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895–1950," March 8–December 31, 2000, extended to January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 92).
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," September 14–November 24, 2002, no. 46.
Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," December 7, 2002–March 9, 2003, no. 46.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla. "Monet to Matisse–On the French Coast," February 7–May 31, 2015, no. 21.
Raymond Escholier. Henri Matisse. Paris, 1937, ill. p. 95, calls it "Figure devant les ponchettes" and dates it 1923.
James Thrall Soby. "Genesis of a Collection." Art in America 49, no. 1 (1961), p. 69, states that in 1931 and 1932 he bought a total of seven Matisses from the 1920s, often trading one for another, and eventually selling them all, adding "sometimes I regret having sold the Matisses".
Massimo Carrà. L'opera di Matisse dalla rivolta 'fauve' all'intimismo, 1904–1928. Milan, 1971, p. 102, no. 394, ill., calls it "Donna alla finestra" and dates it 1923.
Sophie Monneret. Matisse. Paris, 1994, p. 112, no. 426, ill., calls it "Femme à la fenêtre" and dates it 1923.
Sabine Rewald in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 1994–1995." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 53 (Fall 1995), p. 62, ill., dates it about 1921–23; identifies the model as Henriette, "Matisse's favorite model at the time".
Roberta Smith. "Avoiding the Hip, the Trendy, and the Political." New York Times (September 8, 1995), p. C24.
William S. Lieberman inPicasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Exh. cat., Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 2002, pp. 92, 167, no. 46, ill. p. 104 (color).
Tobias Garst inDe Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus: A Look into the Invisible. Ed. Paolo Baldacci. Exh. cat., Palazzo Strozzi. Florence, 2010, pp. 242–43, describes this picture's exchange for two de Chirico paintings arranged between Soby and Pierre Matisse [see Provenance].
Kenneth Wayne. Monet to Matisse–On the French Coast. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla. St. Petersburg, 2015, pp. 23, 54, 86, no. 21, ill. pp. 23, 55 (color).
Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)
1906
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