Pasiphaé: Chant de Minos

1944

Henri Matisse

Artist, French, 1869 - 1954

Henry de Montherlant

Author, French, 1928 - 1959

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with linocut ornaments and devices throughout; 30 full-page linocuts in black (18 within text plus 12 bound at the end) on Japan paper; and linocuts in blue on the original front and back covers

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    book: 33.7 × 26.3 × 3 cm (13 1/4 × 10 3/8 × 1 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.112.21

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Duthuit/Garnaud 1988, no. 10

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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

Exhibition History

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1988

  • Duthuit, Claude and François Garnaud. Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages illustrés. Paris, 1988: no. 10.

Inscriptions

signed in black ink on justification page: Henri Matisse

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