Interior at Nice

Modern Art

1919 or 1920

Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954

Beginning in 1917, Henri Matisse spent most winters in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast. He often stayed at the Hôtel Mediterranée, a Rococo-style building he later fondly termed “faked, absurd, delicious!” Interior at Nice is perhaps the most ambitious of a series of images the painter created using the hotel as a backdrop. The pink-tiled floors and yellow, arabesque-patterned wall-paper are present in many of these works, as are the skirted dressing table, oval mirror, shuttered French window, and balcony. The balcony in fact was one of the artist’s favorite themes, allowing him to link internal and external space into a continuum structured by patterns and modulated light.

Additionally, Matisse often included a young woman somewhere in the scene. Here, his favorite model at the time, Antoinette Arnoux, plays an important role. Not only is she the subject of the painting on the wall, but the composition’s high viewpoint and plunging, wide-angled perspective draw all attention to her as she sits on the balcony, her back to the sea. Framed by shimmering curtains, she gazes directly at the viewer.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Interior at Nice
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.: 1919–1920
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: "Henri-Matisse"
Dimensions: 131.5 × 90.7 cm (51 13/16 × 35 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
Reference Number: 1956.339
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Galerie Pigalle, Exposition de “L’art vivant,” exh. cat. (Galerie Pigalle, 1930), fig. 58; cat. 63, as La Fenêtre and Fenetre [sic].
Galerien Thannhauser, Henri Matisse, mit Geleitwort von Prof. Hans Purrmann und 64 Abbildungen, exh. cat. (Galerien Thannhauser, 1930), p. 16, cat. 37, as Interieur, 1920.
Jacques Guenne, “L’exposition de l’art vivant au Théatre Pigalle,” in Exposition de “L’art vivant,” exh. cat. (Galerie Pigalle, 1930), n. pag., as Fenêtre.
Florent Fels, ed., L’art vivant 6, 130 Numéro consacré a l’exposition de l’Art Vivant (May 15, 1930), pp. [414], fig. 58; 426, no. 63, as La Fenêtre and Fenetre [sic].
Jacques Guenne, “L’exposition de l’art vivant au Théatre Pigalle,” L’Art Vivant 6, 130 Numéro consacré a l’exposition de l’Art Vivant (May 15, 1930), p. 391, as Fenêtre.
Galerie Georges Petit, Henri Matisse, exh. cat. (Galerie Georges Petit, 1931), n. pag. (ill.); p. 33, cat. 85, as Intérieur à Nice, 1921.
Waldemar George, “The Dual Aspect of Matisse,” Formes 16 English ed. (June 1931), n. pag. (ill.), as Intérieur à Nice/An Interior at Nice.
Albert Barnes and Violette De Mazia, The Art of Henri-Matisse (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933), pp. 195; 196; 197; 307, no. 118 (ill.); 442, no. 118, as Interior at Nice.
Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 55, cat. 394, as Large Interior, Nice, 1921.
Jere Abbott, “Exhibitions” and “Accessions and Loans: March 1, 1932 to May 1, 1933,” Bulletin of Smith College Museum of Art 14 (May 1933), pp. 15 (ill.), 16, 22, as Grand Interior, Nice, Grand Interior at Nice, and Interior at Nice.
Pierre Matisse, Paintings, Henri Matisse, exh. cat. (Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1934), cat. 4, as Intérieur à Nice.
Mary Morsell, “Finely Arranged Matisse Exhibit Now on Display,” Art News 32, no. 17 (Jan. 27, 1934), p. 4 (ill.), as Interieur à Nice [sic] and Interieur a Nice [sic].
Raymond Escholier, Henri Matisse, Anciens et Modernes (Librairie Floury, 1937), pp. [67] (ill.), n. pag. as Intérieur a Nice [sic].
F. Gilles de la Tourette, La peinture française contemporaine, Les maitres de l’art indépendant (Librairie des arts décoratifs, 1937), n. pag., no. 21; pl. XXI (detail), as Intérieur à Nice.
Petit Palais, Les maîtres de l’art indépendant, 1895–1937, exh. cat. (Éditions Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1937), p. 36, cat. 12, as Intérieur à Nice, 1921.
Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1938), cat. 77, as Grand Interieur a Nice [sic].
Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Matisse (Arts Club of Chicago, 1939), cat. 9, as Grand Intérieur à Nice.
Henry Clifford and Henri Matisse, Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Organized in Collaboration with the Artist, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1948), p. 40, cat. 54; n. pag., no. 54 (ill.), as Large Interior, Nice, 1921.
Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, exh. cat., introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), pp. 7; 10, cat. 53, as Interior at Nice, (1921).
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), pp. 209, 210, 435 (ill.), 544, as Interior at Nice (Grand intérieur, Nice), Nice, (1921).
Henri Matisse, exh. cat., introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (Los Angeles Municipal Art Department, 1952), pp. 12, cat. 36; 22 (ill.), as Interior at Nice, (1921).
Gaston Diehl, Henri Matisse, with notices by Agnès Humbert (Éditions Pierre Tisné, 1954), pp. 75, 155, as Grand intérieur, 1920.
Paul Rosenberg and Company, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Matisse, exh. cat. (Paul Rosenberg and Company, 1954), cat. 6; pl. 6, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
Martica Sawin, “The Dream of Matisse,” Art Digest 28, 14 (Apr. 15, 1954), p. 10, as Interior at Nice.
Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, exh. cat., foreword by Lamont Moore (Yale University Art Gallery, 1956), cat. 135 (ill.), as Grand Intérieur à Nice.
“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: April–June 1957,” Art Quarterly 20, no. 3 (Autumn 1957), pp. 324; 326, fig. Center: 3, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Honor Roll of Contributors,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, no. 3 Annual Report 1956–1957 (Sept. 15, 1957), p. 63 (ill.), as Large Interior at Nice.
Jacques Lassaigne, Matisse, Le goût de notre temps (Éditions d’Art Albert Skira, 1959), pp. 95, 97 (ill.), as Grand intérieur and Grand intérieur, Nice, 1921.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, repr., 1968), p. 305, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
Carla Gottlieb, “The Role of the Window in the Art of Matisse,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 22, no. 4 (Summer 1964), pp. 398; 399; [408], fig. 10, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
Lawrence Gowing, Henri Matisse: 64 Paintings, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966), pp. 44 (ill.); 62, cat. 42, as Interior at Nice, (1921).
Geneviève Allemand, “Catalogue: 56, Femmes au canapé ou Le Divan,” in Orangerie des Tuileries, Collection Jean Walter–Paul-Guillaume, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1966), p. 119, as Grand Intérieur à Nice, 1921.
Jean Leymarie, “The Painting of Matisse,” trans. Caroline Lumley, in UCLA Arts Council and UCLA Art Galleries, Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966, exh. cat. (University of California Press, 1966), p. 16, as Interior at Nice.
UCLA Arts Council and UCLA Art Galleries, “Reproductions of the Paintings” and “Catalogue of the Exhibition: Paintings,” in Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966, exh. cat. (University of California Press, 1966), pp. 85, no. 55 (ill.); 189, cat. 55, as Interior at Nice/Grand intérieur, Nice, (1921).
Jean Guichard-Meili, Henri Matisse: Son œuvre–son univers (Hazan, 1967), pp. 199, fig. 203; 249, as Grand intérieur, Nice, 1921.
Jean Guichard-Meili, Matisse, trans. Caroline Moorehead, Praeger World of Art Profile (Frederick A. Praeger, 1967), pp. 198; 199, fig. 203; 251, no. 203, as Large Interior, Nice, 1921.
Matisse, 1869–1954: A Retrospective Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, exh. cat., foreword by Gabriel White and an introduction by Lawrence Gowing (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1968), pp. 40 (ill.); 165, cat. 88, as Interior at Nice/Grand intérieur, Nice, 1921.
Alfred Jakstas, “Reports of the Departments: Conservation,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1967–1968 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), p. 47, as Interior at Nice.
Kenjirō Okamoto, Bonnard/Matisse, L’art du monde 16 (Kawade Shobō, 1968), n. pag.; pp. [58–59], pl. 54; 111, no. 54, as Nīsu no shitsunai [ニースの室内; Nice Room]/Intérieur à Nice, 1921.
Christopher Neve, “Matisse on the South Bank,” Country Life144, 3723 (July 11, 1968), p. 72, fig. 2, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Harry N. Abrams, 1970), pp. 121 (ill.), 122, 283, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
Massimo Carrà, “Catalogo delle opera,” in Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L’opera di Matisse dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all’intimismo, 1904–1928, Classici dell’Arte 49 (Rizzoli Editore, 1971), pp. 100–01, cat. 353 (ill.), as Grande Interno a Nizza, 1921. Translated as “Documentation: Catalogue des œuvres,” in Tout l’œuvre peint de Matisse, 1904–1928, ed. Xavier Deryng, Les Classiques de l’Art (Flammarion, 1982), pp. 100–01, cat. 353 (ill.), as Grand intérieur à Nice, 1921.
Henri Matisse, exh. cat., essay by Clement Greenberg (Acquavella Galleries, 1973), pl. 25; cat. 25, as Grand Intérieur, Nice/Grand Interior at Nice, 1921.
Jack Flam, Matisse on Art (Phaidon, 1973), p. 14; fig. 32, as Intérieur à Nice, 1921.
John Jacobus, Henri Matisse, Library of Great Painters (Harry N. Abrams, 1973), pp. [6]; 158–159, pl. 37, as Interior at Nice (Grand Intérieur, Nice), 1921.
Lawrence Gowing, Matisse (Thames & Hudson, 1979), pp. 150; 151, fig. 135; 210, no. 135, as Grand intérieur, Niceand Grand intérieur, Nice (Interior at Nice), 1920.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 14; 55, cat. 2F11; microfiche 2, no. F11, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
Stewart Buettner, “The ‘Mirrored Interiors’ of Henri Matisse,” Apollo, n.s., 117, 252 (Feb. 1983), pp. 128; 129, fig. 5, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
Michel Hoog, Hélène Guicharnaud, and Colette Giraudon, Musée de l’Orangerie: Catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume (Ministère de la Culture, Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1984), pp. 124, 125 (ill.), as Grand intérieur à Nice.
Michael P. Mezzatesta, Henri Matisse: Sculptor/Painter, exh. cat. (Kimbell Art Museum, 1984), pp. 11; 13, fig. 12, as Large Interior, Nice, 1921.49
Pierre Schneider, Matisse (Flammarion, 1984), pp. 452, 509, 510, as Grand Intérieur, Nice, (1921).
Catherine C. Bock, “Woman before an Aquarium and Woman on a Rose Divan: Matisse in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,” in “The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, no. 2 (1986), pp. 201; 217, fig. 19; 218, n. 2, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade, “Album of Colorplates” and “Concordance,” in Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916–1930, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC/Harry N. Abrams, 1986), pp. 148, pl. 100; 333, as Grand intérieur, Nice, 1919 or early 1920.
Dominique Fourcade, “An Uninterrupted Story,” in Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade, Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916–1930, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC/Harry N. Abrams, 1986), pp. 51, 55, as Grand intérieur, Nice.
Dominique Fourcade, Jack Cowart, and Marla Price, “Catalogue,” in Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade, Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916–1930, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC/Harry N. Abrams, 1986), p. 294, cat. 61, as Grand intérieur, Nice/Large Interior, Nice, 1919 or early 1920.
Jean Guichard-Meili, Matisse (Somogy, 1986), p. 129, as Grand intérieur à Nice, 1921.
Bennett Schiff, “Henri Matisse’s period in Nice as a ‘Hewer of Light,’” Smithsonian 17, no. 8 (Nov. 1986), pp. 80 (ill.), 81, as Large Interior, Nice, 1919 or ’20.50
Jacqueline Guillaud and Maurice Guillaud, Matisse: Le rythme et la ligne, with words by Henri Matisse (Guillaud Éditions, 1987), pp. 150, no. 156;159, fig. 156;638, as Grand intérieur à Nice, 1921.
Jack Flam, ed., Matisse: A Retrospective (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1988), p. 233, pl. 72, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), pp. 128 (ill.), 167, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
John Elderfield with Beatrice Kernan, “Plates and Chronology: Part V, 1917–1930; The Early Years at Nice,” in John Elderfield, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992), pp. 289; 290; 309, pl. 229, as Large Interior, Nice/Grand intérieur, Nice, Nice, Hôtel Méditerranée, [late 1918–spring 1919].
Jack Flam, “Henri Matisse: The French Window at Nice (Les persiennes),” in Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, exh. cat. (Alfred A. Knopf/Lincoln University Press, 1993), pp. 264 (ill.), 311, as Interior at Nice, c. 1919.
Michael Hall, “Luxe, Calme, et Volupte,” Country Life 188, 27 (July 7, 1994), p. 66, as Grand intérieur, Nice, Hôtel Mediterranée, 1919.
Gottfried Boehm, Ulrich Mosch, and Katharina Schmidt, eds., “Ausstellungsverzeichnis” in Canto d’Amore: Klassizistische Moderne in Musik und bildender Kunst, 1914–1935, exh. cat. (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Paul Sacher Foundation, 1996), p. 504, cat. 65, as Großes Interieur, Nizza/Grand intérieur, Nice, 1919 oder 1920. Translated as “Catalogue of Exhibited Works,” in Canto d’amore: Classicism in Modern Art and Music, 1914–1935, exh. cat. (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Paul Sacher Foundation, 1996), p. 462, cat. 65, as Large Interior, Nice (Grand intérieur, Nice), 1919 or 1920.
Dominique Fourcade, “Eine ununterbrochene Geschichte: Zum Werk von Henri Matisse zwischen 1916 und 1930,” in Canto d’amore: Klassizistische Moderne in Musik und bildender Kunst, 1914–1935, exh. cat., ed. Gottfried Boehm,
Ulrich Mosch, and Katharina Schmidt (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Paul Sacher Foundation, 1996), pp. 396; 397, no. 65 (ill.), as Großen Interieur, Nizza and Großes Interieur, Nizza, 1919 oder 1920. Translated as “An Uninterrupted Story: Matisse’s Early Years in Nice,” in Canto d’amore: Classicism in Modern Art and Music, 1914–1935, exh. cat., ed. Gottfried Boehm, Ulrich Mosch, and Katharina Schmidt (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Paul Sacher Foundation, 1996), pp. 396; 397, no. 65 (ill.), as Large Interior, Nice, 1919 or 1920.
Larry Smolucha, The Visual Arts Companion (Prentice Hall, 1996), pp. 197; 198, fig. 5.102, as Interior at Nice, 1921.
James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), pp. 50 (ill.), 159, as Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920.
Albert Kostenevich, “Un dialogo lungo mezzo secolo: incontri con l’Oriente,” in Claude Duthuit et al., Matisse: “La révélation m’est venue de l’Orient,” exh. cat. (Artificio, 1997), pp. 65 (ill.), 68, as Grande interno, Nizza, 1919.
Kazuyuki Tōyama, Machisu ni tsuite no tegami [The letters about Matisse] (Shinchōsha, 1999), fig. 8, as Grand intérieur, Nice/Nīsu no ōkina shitsunai-ga [Large painting of an indoor scene of Nice].
Barbara E. Savedoff, Transforming Images: How Photography Complicates the Picture (Cornell University Press, 2000), pp. 162, 163 (ill.), as Interior at Nice, 1921.
Christie’s New York, Impressionist and Modern Art (Evening Sale), sale cat. (Christie’s New York, May 9, 2001), p. 115, fig. 3, as Grand intérieur, Nice, 1919.
“Biografie,” in Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), p. 363, as Grand intérieur, Nice, 1919. Translated by Bronwen Saunders as “Biography,” in Henri Matisse: Figure Color Space, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), p. 363, as Grand intérieur, Nice, 1919.
“Verzeichnis der Werke,” in Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), p. 369, cat. 104, as Grand intérieur, Nice/Großes Interieur, Nizza, 1919. Translated as “List of Works,” in Henri Matisse: Figure Color Space, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), p. 369, cat. 104, as Grand intérieur, Nice/Interior at Nice, 1919.
Melanie Horst, “Gemälde, Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Grafiken, Papierschnitte: Schwellenräume,” in Henri Matisse: Figur Farbe Raum, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), pp. 188; 189, pl. 104, as Grand intérieur, Nice/Großes Interieur, Nizza, 1919. Translated by Steven Lindberg as “Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, Pints, Paper Cutouts: Threshold Spaces,” in Henri Matisse: Figure Color Space, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), pp. 188; 189, pl. 104, as Grand intérieur, Nice and Grand intérieur, Nice/Interior at Nice, 1919.
Beate Söntgen, “Mit niedergeschlagenen Augen: Lesefiguren bei Henri Matisse,” in Henri Matisse: Figur Farbe Raum, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), pp. 82, fig. 9; 83, as Grand intérieur, Nice/Großes Interieur, Nizza, 1919. Translated by Steven Lindberg as “With Downcast Eyes: Figures of Reading in the Work of Henri Matisse,” in Henri Matisse: Figure Color Space, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), pp. 82, fig. 9; 83, as Grand intérieur, Nice / Interior at Nice, 1919.
Katharina Sykora, “Auf den zweiten Blick: Henri Matisse und die Fotografie,” in Henri Matisse: Figur Farbe Raum, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), p. 339, as Grand intérieur, Nice. Translated by Bronwen Saunders as “At Second Glance: Henri Matisse and Photography,” in Henri Matisse: Figure Color Space, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), p. 339, as Grand intérieur Nice.
Katharina Sykora, “Durch das Fenster sehen: Schwellenraum und Weiblichkeit in den “Zimmern mit Aussicht” von Henri Matisse,” in Henri Matisse: Figur Farbe Raum, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), pp. 67, fig. 8; 68;70; 71; 72, as Grand intérieur, Nice/Großes Interieur, Nizza, 1919. Translated by Melissa Hause as “Looking through the Window: Threshold Space and Femininity in Henri Matisse’s ‘Rooms with a View,’” in Henri Matisse: Figure Color Space, exh. cat., ed. Pia Müller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/Hatje Cantz, 2005), pp. 67, fig. 8; 68; 70; 71; 72, as Grand intérieur, Nice / Interior at Nice, 1919.
Brigitte Jacobs van Renswou, “Dokumentation,” Sediment: Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Kunsthandels 11 Thannhauser: Händler, Sammler, Stifter (2006), p. 51, Dok. 2.11 (ill.).
Casimiro Di Crescenzo, “Nachwort II: Die Henri Matisse-Ausstellung in der Galerie Georges Petit,” in Gotthard Jedlicka, Mit Henri Matisse in Paris–1931 (Piet Meyer Verlag, 2008), p. [72], fig. 15, as Grand intérieur, Nice, 1919/1920.
Ann Slavick, Hour Chicago: Twenty-Five Self-Guided 60-Minute Tours of Chicago’s Great Architecture and Art (Ivan R. Dee, 2008), p. 168 (ill.), as Interior at Nice.
Catherine Bock-Weiss, Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009), pp. ix; pl. 8; 83; 111, as Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920.
Amano Chika, “Matisu to shitsunai [Matisse and Interior],” in Garden and Interior: Visions of Intimate World by Bonnard and Matisse [sic], exh. cat., ed. Shimamoto Hideaki (Pola Museum of Art, 2009), pp. 12 (ill.), 13, as Shitsunai, nīsu [Interior, Nice] Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920.
James Cuno, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), p. 117, Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920.
Tomàs Llorens, Matisse: 1917–1941, exh. cat. (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2009), pp. 24, fig. 7; 25; 198, as Interior en Niza (Intérieur à Nice) and Interior at Nice (Intérieur à Nice), 1918–1919.
Stephanie D’Alessandro and John Elderfield, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Museum of Modern Art, New York/Yale University Press, 2010), pp. 348, cat. 54c (ill.); 349, as Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920.
Julie L’Enfant, Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota’s First Generation of Women Artists (Afton Press, 2011), pp. 70, 71 (ill.), as Interior at Nice, ca. 1919–20.
Stephanie D’Alessandro, with contributions by Renée DeVoe Mertz, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Kimbell Art Museum, 2013), pp. 13, 73, 76 (ill.), as Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920.
Stephanie D’Alessandro, with contributions by Renée DeVoe Mertz, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 11, 73, 76 (ill.), as Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920.
“Interior at Nice,” 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. 30, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/67/67_anchor.
Simon Kelly, John Klein, and Ellen McBreen, Matisse and the Sea, exh. cat. (St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum; Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2024) 44, 100, 101 (color ill.), 140

Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, Henri Matisse, Feb. 15–Mar. 19, 1930, cat. 37, as Interieur, 1920.
Paris, Galerie Pigalle, Exposition de “L’art vivant,” May 16–[?], 1930, cat. 63, (ill.), as La Fenêtre.
Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Henri-Matisse, June 16–July 25, 1931, cat. 85 (ill.), as Intérieur à Nice, 1921.
Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, Special Exhibition of Three Paintings, Winter 1932–1933, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 394, as Large Interior, Nice, 1921.
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Paintings, Henri Matisse, Jan. 23–Feb. 24, 1934, cat. 4, as Intérieur à Nice.
Paris, Petit Palais, Les maîtres de l’art indépendant 1895–1937, June 17–Oct., 1937, cat. 12, as Intérieur à Nice, 1921.
Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, Nov. 4–25, 1938, cat. 77, as Grand Interieur a Nice [sic].
Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Matisse, Mar. 30–Apr. 18, 1939, cat. 9, as Grand Intérieur à Nice, 1923.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Apr. 3–May 10, 1948, cat. 54 (ill.), as Large Interior, Nice, 1921.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, Nov. 13, 1951–Jan. 13, 1952, cat. 53, as Interior at Nice, (1921); Cleveland, Museum of Art, Feb. 5–Mar. 16, 1952; Chicago, Art Institute, Apr. 1–May 4, 1952; San Francisco Museum of Art, May 22–July 6, 1952.
Los Angeles Municipal Art Department, Henri Matisse, July 24–Aug. 17, 1952, cat. 36 (ill.), as Interior at Nice, (1921).
New York, Paul Rosenberg and Company, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Matisse, Apr. 5–May 1, 1954, cat. 6 (ill.), as Interior at Nice, 1921.
New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May 8–June 18, 1956, cat. 135 (ill.), as Grand Intérieur à Nice.
Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries, Henri Matisse Retrospective 1966, Jan. 5–Feb. 27, 1966, cat. 55 (ill.), as Interior at Nice/Grand intérieur, Nice, (1921); Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 11–Apr. 24, 1966; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11–June 26, 1966.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: 64 Paintings, July 19–Sept. 25, 1966, cat. 42 (ill.), as Interior at Nice, (1921).
London, Hayward Gallery, Matisse, 1869–1954: A Retrospective Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, July 11– Sept. 8, 1968, cat. 88 (ill.), as Interior at Nice/Grand intérieur, Nice, 1921.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Henri Matisse, Nov. 2–Dec. 1, 1973, cat. 25 (ill.), as Grand Intérieur, Nice/Grand Interior at Nice, 1921.
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916–1930, Nov. 2, 1986–Mar. 29, 1987, cat. 61 (ill.), as Grand intérieur, Nice/Large Interior, Nice, 1919 or early 1920.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, Sept. 24, 1992–Jan. 12, 1993, pl. 229, as Large Interior, Nice/Grand intérieur, Nice, [late 1918–spring 1919].
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Canto d’Amore: Klassizistische Moderne in Musik und bildender Kunst, 1914–1935, Apr. 27–Aug. 11, 1996, cat. 65 (ill.), as Großes Interieur, Nizza/Grand intérieur, Nice, 1919 oder 1920.
Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Henri Matisse: Figur Farbe Raum, Oct. 29, 2005–Feb. 19, 2006, cat. 104 (ill.), as Grand intérieur, Nice/Großes Interieur, Nizza, 1919; traveled to Riehen, Fondation Beyeler, Mar. 19–July 9, 2006.
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no. (ill.), as Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Matisse/Deibenkorn, Oct. 23, 2016–Jan. 29, 2017, no cat. no.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 11–May 29, 2017.
St. Louis, Missouri, Saint Louis Art Museum, Matisse and the Sea, Feb. 17–May 12, 2024, cat. 17.

Georges Menier (1880–1933), Paris, by May 15, 1930 [Fels 1930]. Henri Matisse, Nice, before June 16, 1931 [this and the following according to letter from Pierre Matisse, Oct. 21, 1974; photocopy in curatorial file]; Pierre Matisse (June 13, 1900–Aug. 10, 1989), New York, by June 16, 1931; sold to Mr. Charles Goodspeed (1885–1947) and Mrs. Elizabeth “Bobsy” Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Barret Fuller, remarried as Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, 1893–1980), Chicago and New York, Dec. 24, 1936 [stockbook, Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives, MA 5020, box 171, folder 34, Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, Morgan Library and Museum, New York; photocopy in curatorial file]; partially given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 31, 1956 [full ownership obtained on Oct. 22, 1962].

Cat. 30 Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920

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