[Valentine Gallery, New York, in half shares with Pierre Matisse, by 1930–31; stock no. 291, sold on January 12, 1931, as "Odalisque," 1927, for $11,000, to Soby]; James Thrall Soby, West Hartford, Conn. (1931; returned on October 26, 1931, for $11,000 credit, to Valentine); [Valentine Gallery, New York, in half shares with Pierre Matisse, 1931–34; sold on June 1, 1934, for $6,000, to de Groot]; Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York (1934–d. 1967; on loan to MMA, 1936; her bequest to MMA)
New York. Valentine Gallery. "Twenty Paintings by Henri Matisse," November 23–December 19, 1936, no. 16 (as "Odalisque," 1926) [possibly this picture].
Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum. "Twentieth Century Painting from Three Cities: New York, New Haven, Hartford," October 19–December 4, 1955, no. 33 (as "Odalisque," ca. 1925, lent by Adelaide M. de Groot through The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Modern European Paintings from New York Private Collections," June 22–September 30, 1956, no catalogue.
New York. Perls Galleries. "Masterpieces from the Collection of Adelaide Milton de Groot," April 14–May 3, 1958, no. 15 (as "Odalisque," 1923).
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. "Masterpieces from the Adelaide Milton de Groot Collection," December 2, 1958–March 1, 1959, no. 24 (as "Odalisque," 1923).
New York. Acquavella Galleries, Inc. "Henri Matisse," November 2–December 1, 1973, no. 30 (as "Odalisque," 1923).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The 10s, the 20s, the 30s: Inventive Clothes, 1909–1939," December 13, 1973–September 3, 1974, not in catalogue.
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. "Inventive Clothes, 1909–1939," March 25–May 25, 1975.
Bellingham, Wash. Whatcom Museum of History and Art. "5000 Years of Art: An Exhibition from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 4, 1976–October 2, 1977, no. 77 (as "Odalisque").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Design," December 14, 1983–September 2, 1984, unnum. checklist (installed in galleries of Costume Institute exhibition).
Paris. Institut du Monde Arabe. "Le Maroc de Matisse," October 19, 1999–January 30, 2000, no. 56 (as "Odalisque allongée").
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. 47; as "Reclining Odalisque").
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. 49 (as "Reclining Odalisque").
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. 49.
Le Cateau-Cambrésis. Musée Matisse. "Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams," October 23, 2004–January 25, 2005, no. 23 (as "Reclining Odalisque").
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams," March 5–May 30, 2005, no. 23.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams," June 23–September 25, 2005, no. 23.
Granada. The Alhambra, Palace of Charles V. "Matisse and the Alhambra, 1910-2010," October 15, 2010–February 28, 2011, no. 22 (as "Recumbent Odalisque").
Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. Gallery of Modern Art. "Matisse: Drawing Life," December 3, 2011–March 4, 2012, no. 296.
Copenhagen. Statens Museum for Kunst. "Matisse—fordobling og variation," July 14–October 28, 2012, no. 49.
Ferrara. Palazzo dei Diamanti. "Matisse, la figura. La forza della linea, l'emozione del colore," February 22–June 15, 2014, no. 44.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Matisse in the Studio," April 9–July 9, 2017, unnumbered cat. (fig. 118).
Royal Academy of Arts, London. "Matisse in the Studio," August 5–November 12, 2017, unnumbered cat.
Canberra. National Gallery of Australia. "Matisse & Picasso," December 13, 2019–April 13, 2020, unnumbered cat. (p. 113, as "Reclining Odalisque [Odalisque couché]").
G. J. Gros. "Henri Matisse." Cahiers d'art 2, nos. 7–8 (1927), ill. p. 274, dates it 1927.
Florent Fels. Henri-Matisse. Paris, 1929, ill. p. 43 (color), calls it "Odalisque sur fond rouge".
"The Art Market." Creative Art 7 (November 1930), ill. p. sup-66, locates it at the Valentine Gallery.
R[iichiro]. Kawashima. Matisse. Tokyo, 1936, unpaginated, ill. (color), dates it 1928.
Harry B. Wehle. "A Loan of Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 31 (October 1936), p. 209, notes that this work is currently on view in the MMA galleries, lent by an anonymous collector.
"Three French Artists." New York Times (November 29, 1936), p. X9 [possibly this painting].
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".
Thomas Schlotterback. 5000 Years of Art: An Exhibition from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Whatcom Museum of History and Art. Bellingham, Wash., 1976, p. 105, no. 77, ill., dates it about 1924.
Mahonri Sharp Young. "Letter from the U.S.A., Bag Lady: Part II." Apollo 120 (August 1984), p. 132, fig. 1, calls it "Odalisque".
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville. Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris, 1995, vol. 2, pp. 1282–83, no. 680, ill., as "Odalisque couchée, draperie losange, les deux bras sous la tête"; note that it was photographed by Bernheim-Jeune in October 1927.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine inLe Maroc de Matisse. Exh. cat., Institut du Monde Arabe. [Paris], 1999, pp. 136–37, no. 56, ill. (color), dates it 1926–27.
Pierre Schneider. Matisse. Rev. ed. (English ed., 1984). Paris, 2002, p. 527, as "Odalisque," 1923.
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. 49, ill. p. 107 (color).
Kathleen Brunner inMatisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams. Exh. cat., Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis. London, 2004, p. 184, no. 23, ill. p. 113 (color).
Maria del Mar Villafranca Jiménez inMatisse and the Alhambra, 1910–2010. Exh. cat., The Alhambra, Palace of Charles V. [Granada], 2010, pp. 120–21, 240, no. 22, ill. (color).
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine inMatisse: In Search of True Painting. Ed. Dorthe Aagesen and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. 131–32, 134, 191 n. 3, no. 49, ill. (color), lists it among a series of at least four other odalisques with similar motifs, including "Odalisque in Gray Harem Pants" (1926–27; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris), "Odalisque with Green Sash" (1926; Baltimore Museum of Art), "Reclining Odalisque, Green Harem Pants, Blue Sash" (1927; Henry Ford II Collection), and "Reclining Nude Seen from the Back" (1927; private collection).
Christel Hollevoet-Force and Mary Chan inMatisse: In Search of True Painting. Ed. Dorthe Aagesen and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, p. 218.
Maria Luisa Pacelli et al. Matisse, la figura. La forza della linea, l'emozione del colore. Exh. cat., Palazzo dei Diamanti. Ferrara, 2014, p. 151, no. 44, ill. p. 159 (color).
Ellen McBreen inMatisse in the Studio. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 2017, pp. 114, 132, 134, 200, fig. 118 (color).
Jane Kinsman in Jane Kinsman with Simeran Maxwell. Matisse Picasso. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Australia. Canberra, 2019, pp. 112, 115, 182, ill. p. 113 (color).
Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)
1912
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