The Serf
Date
(1900-1903/cast c. 1931)
Artist
Henri Matisse, French, b. Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1869–1954
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to 12 February 1957
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 12 February 1957-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES, New York. "Henri Matisse: Sculpture, Drawings," 25 November-20 December 1958, no. 1, ill.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 153. TOUR: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 290, ill. pp. 76-77.
ART GALLERIES, University of California at Los Angeles. "Henri Matisse," 5 January-27 February 1966, no. 96, ill. p. 124. TOUR: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 11 March-24 April; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 11 May-26 June.
EXPO '67, Montreal. "International Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture," 28 April-27 October 1967, p. 119, ill. p. 97.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, ill.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE, Washington, DC. (organizer) for ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM, Edinburgh, Scotland. "Treasures of the Smithsonian," 11 August-4 November 1984.
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. "The Body," 12 September-16 November 1997.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, London. "The Year 1900: Art at the Crossroads," 15 January-3 April 2000, colorpl. p. 123. TOUR: SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York, 11 May-4 September 2000.
Published References
MUNSTERBERG, HUGO. "In the Galleries: Matisse Sculptures," Arts 32 (January 1959), p. 56.
PORTER, FAIRFIELD. "Reviews and Previews: Matisse Sculpture and Drawings," Art News 57 (January 1959), p. 11.
GELDZAHLER, HENRY. "Taste for Modern Sculpture: The Hirshhorn Collection," Art News 61 (October 1962).
RUBIN, WILLIAM S. "The Hirshhorn Collection at the Guggenheim Museum," Art International 6 (November 1962), ill. p. 36.
KRAMER, HILTON. "Matisse as a Sculptor," Boston Museum Bulletin 64/366 (1966), pp. 51, 53, 55, ill. 2.
READ, HERBERT. "The Sculpture of Matisse," Henri Matisse (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966), pp. 20-21.
SELDIS, HENRY J. "Matisse Sculpture Carves Niche in Fame," Los Angeles Times Calendar (February 6, 1966), p. 2.
ARNASON, H. HARVARD. History of Modern Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968), p. 114, ill. 177.
HALE, WILLIAM HARLAN. The World of Rodin: 1840-1917 (New York: Time-Life, 1969), p. 176, ill. 176.
CLAPP, JANE. The Sculpture Index, vol. I (Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1970), p. 604.
ELSEN, ALBERT E. The Sculpture of Henri Matisse (New York: Harry N.Abrams, 1972), ill. 26.
LERNER, ABRAM. Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 30.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), fig. 161, pp. 124, 720.
LYNES, RUSSELL. "Modern Art Arrives on the Mall in a New Museum and Sculpture Garden," Smithsonian 5 (December 1974), p. 43.
MERILLAT, HERBERT CHRISTIAN. Modern Sculpture: The New Old Masters (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1974), p. 14, ill. 6.
BUTLER, RUTH. Western Sculpture: Definitions of Man (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975), p. 233, fig. 135.
TUCKER, WILLIAM. "Matisse's Sculpture: The Grasped and The Seen,"Art in America 63 (July-August 1975), ill. pp. 63, 64, 66.
SELZ, PETER. Art in Our Times (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Harry N. Abrams, 1981), p. 76, fig. 168.
PARK, EDWARDS. Treasures from the Smithsonian (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983), p. 174, ill.
ARNASON, H. H. History of Modern Art, 3rd ed., revised and updated by Daniel Wheeler (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986), p. 135, ill. 177.
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Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.3451
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
36 X 14 7/8 X 12 1/8 IN. (91.5 X 37.8 X 30.7 CM.) ON BRONZE BASE, H: 2 5/8 IN. (6.7 CM.)
