Thorn Extractor

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Modern Art

1906, cast 1953

Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Thorn Extractor
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Modeled 1906
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Signed and numbered at back “HM 6/10” and stamped at back, “C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE”
Dimensions: 20.2 × 14 × 15.2 cm (7 15/16 × 5 1/2 × 6 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Ruth Stanton Family Foundation
Reference Number: 2008.189
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté (C. Duthuit, 1997), p. 66, cat. 26, no. 6, as Tireur d’épine, Thorn Extractor–Spinario, Figure Drawing a Thorn, Collioure, 1906 [cast 1953].
Étienne Sabench, Matisse et ses amis: Collioure, 1905–1906 (Association des Amis du Musée de Collioure, 2005), p. 38 (ill.), as Tireur d’épine, Collioure 1906.
“Thorn Extractor,” in Matisse Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Stephanie D’Alessandro (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), cat. 10, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/41/41_anchor

Collioure, France, Château Royal de Collioure, Matisse et ses amis: Collioure 1905–1906, June 18–Oct. 9, 2005, no cat. no. (ill.), as Tireur d’épine, Collioure 1906.

The artist; by descent to his estate, from November 3, 1954 [email from Franck Giraud, of Giraud, Pissarro, Segalot, May 21, 2011; photocopy in curatorial file]; by descent to his son, Jean Matisse (Jan. 10, 1899–Dec. 10, 1976), Paris, after Nov. 3, 1954; by descent to his son, Gérard Matisse (Apr. 7, 1931–May 4, 2006), Dec. 10, 1976; by descent to his estate, May 4, 2006; purchased by the Ruth Stanton Foundation, New York, by Feb. 15, 2008 [letter from Ruth S. Stanton, Feb. 15, 2008; photocopy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 9, 2008.

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