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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, "Henri Matisse," 1930, pp. 28, 63 (ill.), cat. 107.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, pp. 20-21, cat. 36, pl. XXVIII, cat. by Carl Schniewind.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Henri Matisse," November 13, 1951–January 13, 1952, addendum to catalogue; traveled to Cleveland Museum of Art, February 5–March 16, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, April 1–May 4, 1952; San Francisco, Museum of Art, May 22–July 6, 1952.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Les Fauves," October 8, 1952–January 4, 1953, p. 47, cat. 114; traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 21–February 22, 1953; the San Francisco Museum of Art, March 13–April 12, 1953; and the Toronto, Art Gallery, May 1–May 31, 1953.

Chicago, Arts Club, "Les Fauves," January 10–February 15, 1956, n.p., cat. 21.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Drawings: Clouet to Matisse," 1958, cat. 202, pl. 181.

University of California Art Council and University of California Art Galleries (organizers), "Henri Matisse Retrospective," 1966, pp. 143 (ill.) and 196, cat. 142; traveled to Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, January 5–February 27, 1966; Art Institute of Chicago, March 11–April 24, 1966; and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11–June 26, 1966.

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse as Draughtsman," January 12–February 21, 1971, pp. 15, 50-51 (ill.), cat. 15; traveled to San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, March 20–May 9, 1971; and Art Institute of Chicago, May 26–July 10, 1971.

Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, "Henri Matisse: dessins et sculpture," May 29–September 7, 1975, pp. 14, 74-75 (ill.), and 77, cat. 24; traveled to Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, September 27–October 26, 1975, n.p., cat. 22 (ill.).

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 79 (ill.).

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 166-167, cat. 80 (ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Henri Matisse: A Retrospective," September 16, 1992–January 12, 1993, p. 150 (ill.), cat. 69.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.

Publication History

Roland E. Schacht, Henri Matisse (Dresden, 1922), p. 62 (ill.).

Regina Schoolman and Charles Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings (New York, 1950), p. 236 (ill.).

Alfred H. Barr, Matisse: His Art and His Public (New York, 1951), pp. 98, 322, and 533 (ill.).

J. Cassou and P. Jaccottet, Le Dessin Français au XXe Siècle, (Lausanne, 1951), p. 26 (ill.).

E. Trier, Zeichner des XX Jahrhunderts, (Berlin, 1956), p. 30, no. 16 (ill.).

Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time III (New York, 1962), no. 852 (ill.).

Una E. Johnson, Drawings of the Masters I, 20th Century Drawings (New York, 1964), pl. 8.

Jean Guichard-Meili, Matisse (New York, 1967), pp. 34 (ill.), 36 and 245, fig. 19, as Sleeping Nude.

J. Jacobus, Henri Matisse (New York, 1972), p. 65 (ill.).

G. Monnier and B. Rose, History of an Art/Drawing (Geneva, 1979), p. 206 (ill.).

John Elderfield, The Drawings of Henri Matisse exh. cat. (London, 1984), p. 42 (ill.), fig. 7.

Sarah Wilson, Henri Matisse (Barcelona, 1990) (ill.).

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Les Fauves ou la couleur libérée (Paris, 1995), p. 51 (ill.).

Anita Hopmans, Kees Van Dongen (Rotterdam, 1996).

Treasures From the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 237 (ill.).

Ownership History

Dr. Heinz Braun, Breslau, acquired directly from the artist [Chicago 1946]. Sold by Galerie Thannhauser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1944.