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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie du Théatre Pigalle, Exposition de l’Art Viviant, May 1930, cat. 63, fig. 58 (ill.).

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Henri Matisse, June 16–July 25, 1931, opp. p. 32 (ill.), p. 33, cat. 85.

Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Winter Exhibition of Three Paintings, 1932, as Grand Intérieur, Nice.

Chicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 55, cat. 394, as Large Interior, Nice.

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Henri Matisse Paintings, January 23–February 24, 1934, cat. 4.

Paris, Petit Palais, Les Maitres de l’Art Independent 1895–1937, June–October 1937, p. 36, cat. 12.

Chicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, November 4–25, 1938, cat. 77, as Grand Interieur a Nice.

Chicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Matisse, March 30–April 18, 1939, cat. 9, as Grand Intérieur à Nice.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, April 3–May 9, 1948, p. 40, cat. 54 (ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, November 13, 1951–January 13, 1952, p. 10, cat. 53; traveled to Cleveland Museum of Art, February 5–March 16, 1952; Chicago, Art Institute, April 1–May 4, 1952; San Francisco Museum of Art, May 22–July 6, 1952.

Los Angeles Municipal Art Department, Henri Matisse, July 24–August 17, 1952, pp. 12, 22 (ill.), cat. 36; traveled to Portland, Oreg., Museum of Art, September 12–October 10, 1952.

New York, Paul Rosenberg and Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Matisse, April 5–May 1, 1954, n.p., cat. 6 (ill.).

New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, cat. 135 (ill.), as Grand Intérieur à Nice.

Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966, January 5–February 27, 1966, pp. 16, 85 (ill.), 189, cat. 55; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, March 11–April 24, 1966; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11–June 26, 1966.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: 64 Paintings, July 18–September 26, 1966, p. 44 (ill.), 62, cat. 42.

London, Hayward Gallery, Matisse, July 4–September 8, 1968, pp. 40 (ill.), 165, cat. 88.

Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, Drawings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 23-May 14, 1972.

New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Henri Matisse, November 2–December 1, 1973, cat. 25.

Washington, D.C., Henri Matisse: The Mastery of Light and Pattern: The Early Years at Nice, November 2, 1986–March 29, 1987, pp. 51, 55, 148 (ill.), 294, cat. 61, pl.100, as Grand intérieur, Nice; Large Interior, Nice.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, September 24, 1992-January 12, 1993, pp. 290, 309 (ill.), cat. 229, as Large Interior, Nice; Grand intérieur, Nice.

Basel, Kunstmuseum, Canto d’Amore, April 25–August 11, 1996.

Düsseldorf, Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Henri Matisse: Figure, Color, Space, October 29, 2005–February 19, 2006, pp. 68, 70, 71, 189 (ill.), 338, 339, 369, cat. 104, as Grand intérieur, Nice.

Publication History

Gauthier, Maximilien, “Notices bio-bibliographiques des peintres figurants à l’exposition de l’Art Vivant,” L’Art Vivant, 6, no. 130 (May 15, 1930), pp. 414 (ill.), 426, fig. 58, as Fenêtre no. 63 and La fenêtre.

Gene, Jacques, “L’Exposition de l’Art Vivant au Théatre Pigalle,” L’Art Vivant 6, no. 130 (May 15, 1930), p. 391, as La fenetre.

George, Waldemar, “The Dual Aspect of Matisse,” Formes (English ed.) v. 16 (June 1931), pp. 94-95 (ill.).

Galerie Georges Petit, Henri Matisse exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1931), opp. p. 32 (ill.), p. 33, cat. 85.

Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures exh. cat. (Art Institue of Chicago, 1933), p. 55, cat. 394, as Large Interior, Nice.

Barnes, Alfred, and Violette De Mazia, The Art of Henri Matisse (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933), pp. 195–197, 307 (ill.), 442, cat. 118.

Abbott, Jere, “Exhibitions,” Bulletin of the Smith College Museum of Art, no. 14 (May 1933), p. 15 (ill.), as Grand Interior, Nice.

Morsell, Mary, “Finely Arranged Matisse Exhibit Now on Display,” Art News, 32 (January 27, 1934), pp. 3–4 (ill.).

Escholier, Raymond, Anciens et Modernes: Henri Matisse (Paris: Librarie Floury, 1937), n.p. (ill.).
Gilles de la Tourette, F., la Peinture Française Contemporaine (Paris, 1937), pl. 21 (ill.).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1948), p. 40, cat. 54 (ill.).

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public (New York, 1951), pp. 209–210, 435 (ill.).

Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse exh. cat. (New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1951), p. 10, cat. 53.

Diehl, Gaston, Henri Matisse (Paris: Editions Pierre Tisné, 1954—or 1956??), p. 75, as Grand intérieur.
Paul Rosenberg and Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Matisse (New York: Paul Rosenberg and Co., 1954), n.p., cat. 6 (ill.).

Sawin, Maratica, “The Dream of Matisse,” Art Digest 27 or 23 (April 15, 1954), p. 10.

“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,” Art Quarterly 20, no. 3 (Autumn 1957), p. 326 (ill.), fig. 3.

Art Institute of Chicago, Quarterly/Annual Report, 1956–1957 51, no. 3 (1957), p. 63 (ill.).

Lassaigne, Jacques, Matisse (Geneva, 1959), pp. 95, 97 (ill).

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago : A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 305.

Gottlieb, Cara, “The Role of the Window in the Art of Matisse,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 22 (Summer 1964), p. 399 (ill.), fig. 10.

Gowing, Lawrence, , Henri Matisse: 64 Paintings exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 44 (ill.), 62, cat. 42.

Leymaire, Jean, Herbert Read, and William S. Lieberman, Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966 exh. cat. (University of California Los Angeles Art Council, 1966), pp. 16, 85 (ill.), 189, cat. 55.

Guichard-Meili, Jean, Matisse (New York, 1967), pp. 198–99 (ill.), 250, cat. 203.

Arts Council of Great Britain, Matisse exh. cat. (London: Hayward Gallery, 1968), pp. 40 (ill.), 165, cat. 88.

Kamato, Kanjiro, Bonnard/Matisse, L’Art du Monde, 16 (Japan, 1968), cat. 54 (ill.).

Neve, Christopher, “Matisse on the South Bank,” Country Life 164 (July 1968), pp. 71–2 (ill.).

Maxon, John, The Art Institute of Chicago (Harry N. Abrams, 1970), pp. 121 (ill.), 122, 283.

Luzi, Mario and Massimo Carrà, L’opera di Matisse dalla rivolta fauve all’intinismo, 1904–1928 (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1971), cat. 353 (ill.).

Flam, Jack, Matisse on Art (London: Phaidon, 1973), fig. 32 (ill.).

Jacobus, John, Henri Matisse (New York 1973), p. 158, pl. 37 (ill.).

Gowing, Lawrence, Matisse (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979), pp. 150, 151 (ill.), cat. 135, as Grand intérieur, Nice.

Schneider, Pierre, Massimo Carrà and Xavier Derrying, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Matisse, 1904–1928 (Paris: Flammarion, 1982), fig. 353 (ill.).

Buettner, Stewart, “The Mirrored Interiors of Henri Matisse,” Apollo (February 1983), pp. 128 (ill.), 129, fig. 5.

Hoog, Michel, Hèléne Guicharnaud and Colette Giraudon, Catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume (Paris: Musée de l’Orangerie, 1984), p. 124–25 (ill.).

Mezzatesta, Michael P., Henri Matisse: Sculptor/Painter exh. cat. (Fort Worth, Tex.: Kimbell Art Museum, 1984), p. 13 (ill.), fig. 12.

Schneider, Pierre, Matisse (Paris: Flammarion, 1984), p. 510.

Bock, Catherine C., “Woman Before an Aquarium and Woman on a Rose Divan: Matisse in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,” Museum Studies 12, no. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), pp. 201, 217 (ill.).

Cowart, Jack, and Dominique Fourcade, Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916–1930 exh. cat. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986), pp. 51, 55, 148 (ill.), 294, cat. 61, pl. 100, as Grand intérieur, Nice; Large Interior, Nice.

Guichard-Meili, Jean, Matisse (Paris: Editions Aimery Somogy, 1986), p. 129.

Guillaud, Jacqueline and Maurice Guillaud, Matisse: Rhythm and Line (New York: Guillaud Editions, 1987), p. 150, 638, cat. 156 (ill.).

Flam, Jack, ed., Matisse: A Retrospective (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1988), p. 233 (ill.), pl. 72.

Wood, James N., Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), pp.124 (ill.), 167.

Elderfield, John, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 290, 309 (ill.), cat. 229, as Large Interior, Nice; Grand intérieur, Nice.
Wood, James N. and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), pp. 50 (ill.).
Müller-Tamm, Pia, ed., Figure, Color, Space: Henri Matisse exh. cat. (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: Düsseldorf, 2005), pp. 68, 70, 71, 189 (ill.), 338, 339, 369, cat. 104, as Grand intérieur, Nice.

Ownership History

M. Georges Menier, Paris, by 1930 [Gauthier 1930]. Pierre Matisse, New York, acquired directly from the artist, 1934–1936 [letter of October 21, 1974 from Pierre Matisse in curatorial file]; sold to Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed (later Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman), Chicago, 1936–1956 [letter mentioned above]; given to the Art Institute, 1956.