Cinquante dessins

1920

Henri Matisse

Artist, French, 1869 - 1954

Henri Matisse

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 1 etching on chine collé and 49 photomechanical reproductions on Hollande van Gelder paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    book: 31.12 × 21.91 × 2.54 cm (12 1/4 × 8 5/8 × 1 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.112.17

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Duthuit/Garnaud 1988, no. 2

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1988

  • Duthuit, Claude and François Garnaud. Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages illustrés. Paris, 1988: no. 2.

Inscriptions

in ink under etching lower right: Henri Matisse; in blue pen across top of title-page: L'hommage unconnaissance / au professeur René Leriche / Henri Matisse / Oct 1946

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