Head of Jeannette III
Date
(1911/cast 1966)
Artist
Henri Matisse, French, b. Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1869–1954
Provenance
Jean Matisse, Pontoise, France, to 14 February 1969
Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills, California,14-18 February 1969
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 18 February 1969-6 March 1972
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972
Exhibition History
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Alfred Stieglitz and Modern Art in America," 28 January-22 April 2001.
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART. "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," 21 January-29 April 2007, no. 85, ill. p. 274. TOUR: SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 9 June-16 September; BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, 28 October-3 February 2008. [Baltimore only]
STAATSGALERIE STUTTGART. "Matisse: People, Masks, Models," 27 September 2008-11 January 2009, no. 19, ill. p. 118; pp. 18, 205, 216. TOUR: BUCERIUS KUNST FORM, Hamburg, 31 January-19 April.
Published References
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 721, ill. 203.
LYNES, RUSSELL. "Modern Art Arrives on the Mall in a New Museum and Sculpture Garden," Smithsonian 5/9 (December 1974), colorplate, p. 41, p. 43 (gen.).
HUDSON, ANDREW. "Washington Letter," Art International 19/6 (15 June 1975), p. 100.
KOSCEVIC, ZELIMIR. Kozaric (Zagreb, Croatia: Naprijed, 1996), ill. p. 17.
DUTHUIT, CLAUDE. "Henri Matisse" catalogue raisonne of sculpture (Paris: 1997), no. 52, cast no. 9. Gives date of 1911, and casting date of 1966.
SOTHEBY'S. Impressionist & Modern Art, Part one (New York: 10 May 2001), p. 115.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 21, p. 47.
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On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.196
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
23 3/4 x 9 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (60.2 x 23.7 x 30.6 cm)
