the artist (1915–d. 1954; his estate, Paris, 1955; to P. Matisse); Pierre Matisse, New York (until d. 1989); his widow, Maria-Gaetana Matisse, née von Spreti, New York (1989–d. 2001); Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation (2002; gift to MMA)
New York. Pierre Matisse Gallery. "Henri Matisse: Drawings, Sculpture," January 1959, no. 8.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "Matisse as a Draughtsman," January 12–February 21, 1971, no. 27.
San Francisco. California Palace of the Legion of Honor. "Matisse as a Draughtsman," March 20–May 9, 1971, no. 27.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Matisse as a Draughtsman," May 26–July 10, 1971, no. 27.
Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. "Henri Matisse: Dessins et sculpture," May 29–September 7, 1975, no. 51.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "Henri Matisse: Dessins et sculpture/ Tekeningen en sculpturen," September 27–October 26, 1975, no. 47.
London. Hayward Gallery. "The Sculpture and Drawings of Henri Matisse," October 4, 1984–January 6, 1985, no. 41.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Drawings of Henri Matisse," February 28–May 14, 1985, no. 41.
Venice. Museo Correr. "Henri Matisse: Matisse et l'Italie," May 30–October 18, 1987, no. D18.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selections from The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, Part 2," September 28, 2004–January 30, 2005, no catalogue.
Museo Picasso Málaga. "La Colección Pierre y Maria-Gaetana Matisse en The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York," March 26–June 24, 2007, no. 25.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917," March 20–June 20, 2010, no. 48.2.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917," July 18–October 11, 2010, no. 48.2.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. "Henri Matisse, le laboratoire intérieur," December 2, 2016–March 6, 2017, no. 90.
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Matisse: His Art and His Public. New York, 1951, p. 178, general relevance for series of portraits of Mudocci painted by Matisse in 1916.
John Canaday. "Matisse and the Liberation of Drawing." New York Times (January 17, 1971), p. D27.
Victor Carlson. "Some Cubist Drawings by Matisse." Arts Magazine 45 (March 1971), pp. 37, 39, ill.
André Fermigier. "Matisse à Marseilles." Le Monde (July 10, 1974), p. 17.
André Fermigier. "Dessins et sculptures de Matisse au Musée d'art moderne: Les plaisirs du roi." Le Monde (June 5, 1975), p. 19.
Pierre Schneider. Matisse. New York, 1984, p. 473, ill.
Yve-Alain Bois. "Matisse Redrawn." Art in America 73 (September 1985), p. 128, ill.
Jack Flam. Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869–1918. Ithaca, 1986, pp. 396–97, 520, fig. 395.
Gilles Néret. Matisse. [Paris], 1991, p. 90, fig. 140.
Pierre Schneider. Matisse. Rev. ed. (English ed., 1984). Paris, 2002, p. 473, ill.
Carol Vogel. "Met Gets Gift of 100 Works Collected by Son of Matisse." New York Times (February 27, 2003), p. B9.
Magdalena Dabrowski in Sabine Rewald. The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection. The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection. New York, 2009, pp. 96–97, 161, ill. (color).
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine and Sylvie Ramond inHenri Matisse, le laboratoire intérieur. Ed. Isabelle Monod-Fontaine and Sylvie Ramond. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Lyon, 2016, p. 16, no. 90, ill. p. 134 (color).
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine inHenri Matisse, le laboratoire intérieur. Ed. Isabelle Monod-Fontaine and Sylvie Ramond. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Lyon, 2016, p. 119.
Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)
1912
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