About This Artwork
Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954
The Green Sash, 1919
Oil on canvas
19 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (49 x 43.8 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "Henri-Matisse"
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1947.91
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Henri-Matisse, October 15–November 25, 1920, n.p., cat. 25, as Femme au voile vert.
London, National Gallery, Millbank, Opening Exhibition of the Modern Foreign Gallery, June–October 1926, p. 5, as Girl in a Green Sash.
Toledo, Museum of Art, Contemporary Movements in European Painting, November 6–December 11, 1938, cat. 67.
Chicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Matisse, March 13–April 18, 1939, n.p., cat. 13.
St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, Inaugural Exhibition, February 6–March 7, 1965, n.p., cat. 79 (ill.).
New York, Aquavella Galleries, Henri Matisse (Lenox Hill Hospital Benefit), November 2–December 1, 1973, n.p., cat. 19 (ill.), as L’écharpe verte, The Green Sash.
Publication History
Vildrac, Charles, Exposition Henri-Matisse (Paris: Galerie Bernehim-Jeune, 1920), n.p., cat. 25, as Femme au voile vert.National Gallery, List of Loans at the Opening Exhibition of the Modern Foreign Gallery, June–October 1926 (London: Harrison and Sons Ltd., 1926), p. 5, as Girl in a Green Sash.
Toledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Movements in European Painting (1938), cat. 67.
Rich, Daniel Catton, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Chicago, 1938), p. 83, cat. 92, pl. 51.
Arts Club, Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Matisse (Chicago: Arts Club, 1939), n.p., cat. 13.
Barr, Alfred H., Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public (Museum of Modern Art, 1951), p. 558.
Escholier, Raymond, Matisse: A Portrait of the Artist and the Man (London, 1960), p. 21 (ill).
Escholier, Raymond, Matisse: From the Life (London: Faber and Faber, 1960), pp. 13, fig. 21 (ill.), as La ceinture verte.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), p. 305.
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Fla., Inaugural Exhibition (Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Fla., 1965), n.p., cat. 79 (ill.).
Okamato Kenjiro, “Bonnard/Matisse,” L’Art du monde 16 (1968), cat. 53 (ill.).
Luzi, Mario and Massimo Carrà, L’Opera di Matisse: dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all’intimismo, 1904–1928, Classici dell’arte, 49 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1971), pp. 98 (ill.), 99, cat. 299, as La sciarpa verde.
Aquavella, Nicholas M., Henri Matisse: For the Benefit of the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, (New York: Aquavella Galleries Inc., 1973), n.p., cat. 19 (ill.), as L’écharpe verte, The Green Sash.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute 1980), p. 55, pl. 2F10.
Catherine C. Bock, “Woman before an Aquarium and Woman on a Rose Divan: Matisse in the Helen Birch Barlett Memorial Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, cat. 2 (Art Institute: 1986), pp. 201-21.
Guichard-Meili, Jean, Matisse (Paris: Editions Aimery Somogy, 1986), p. 129.
Guillaud Jacqueline, and Maurice Guillaud, Matisse: Rhythm and Line (New York: Clarkson N. Potter Inc., 1987), p. 151 (ill.), cat. 152.
Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernehim-Jeune (Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1995), vol. 2, pp. 805 (ill.), 1437, 1439, 1464, cat. 337, as Femme au fauteuil.
Ownership History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, probably acquired directly from the artist, Paris, by 1920 [Paris 1920]. Alfred Thornton, London, by 1926 [London 1926]. B. H. Brandon-Davis, London, by early 1930s [letter of February 3, 1977 from T. S. Bathurst, Director of Arthur Tooth & Sons, in curatorial file]; sold to Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, early 1930s [letter mentioned above]; sold to Charles H. Worcester and Mary F. S. Worcester, Chicago, September 1935 [receipt, October 1, 1935, in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1947.