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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.31.7
People
Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
Title
Portrait of Thomas Whittemore
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1937
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297458

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 38 x 28.4 cm (14 15/16 x 11 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Whittemore, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951 (through the courtesy of John Nicholas Brown).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore through the courtesy of John Nicholas Brown
Copyright
© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.31.7
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1966), pp. 105, 247 (note)
  • Henri Matisse: Dessins Collection du Musée Matisse, exh. cat., Musée Matisse and Editions Adrien Maeght (Nice, France, 1988), under no. 41
  • Natalia B. Teteriatnikov, Mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul: The Fossati Restoration and the Work of the Byzantine Institute, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection (Washington, D.C, 1998), p. 26, fig. 29
  • Robert S. Nelson, Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950, University of Chicago Press (Chicago/London, 2004), p. 156, fig. 83

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