About This Artwork

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Grounded Fishing Boat, 1904

Reed pen and black ink on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card
444 x 317 mm (primary support); 464 x 337 mm (secondary support); 517 x 372 mm (tertiary support)
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Henri-Matisse"
Gift of Mr. Joel Starrels, 1961.1188

© 2008 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, "De Toulouse-Lautrec aux Cubistes," 1954, p. 28, cat. 140.

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, "De Toulouse-Lautrec à Chagall: dessins, aquarelles, gouaches," March 3–April 22, 1956, n.p., cat. 125, pl. 36.

Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, "Henri Matisse: Zeichnungen und Gouaches Découpées," December 11, 1993–February 20, 1994, p. 37, cat. 4 (ill.).

Ownership History

Leo Stein (died 1947), Paris and Settignano, Italy [inscription on mat]. César de Hauke (died 1965), Paris, by 1954-at least April 22, 1956 [Paris 1954]. Zwemmer Gallery, London. Given by Joel Starrels, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1961.