Grounded Fishing Boat

Prints and Drawings

1905

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Grounded Fishing Boat
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.: 1905
Medium: Reed pen and black ink on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Henri-Matisse"
Dimensions: Primary support: 44.4 × 31.7 cm (17 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 46.4 × 33.7 cm (18 5/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Tertiary support: 51.7 × 37.7 cm (20 3/8 × 14 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Joel Starrels
Reference Number: 1961.1188
Copyright: © 2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Nicholas Watkins, Matisse (Phaidon, 1984), p. 54, pl. 35, as Fishing Boat, 1904.
Robert McD. Parker, “Catalogue of the Stein Collections,” in The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, exh. cat., ed. Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Yale University Press, 2011), p. 420, no. 159 (ill.).
“Grounded Fishing Boat,” 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. 6, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor.

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.).

Leo Stein (1872–1947), Paris and Settignano, Italy [inscription on mat]. César de Hauke (1900-1965), Paris, by May 11, 1954-at least April 22, 1956 [Paris 1954]. Zwemmer Gallery, London. Given by Joel Starrels (1891-1986), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1961.

Cat. 6 Grounded Fishing Boat, 1905

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