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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12157
People
Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France)
Title
The Clown (Frontispiece)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Jazz (Paris, Teriade, 1947)
Original Language Title: Le Clown (Frontispiece)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1947
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/271762

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Pochoir
Dimensions
folded sheet: 42 x 32.5 cm (16 9/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Pierre Berès, Paris, France], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, April 2, 1948.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
D. 22

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund
Copyright
© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
M12157
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 63, fig. 54, ill. (color)
  • David Bindman, Suzanne Blier, and Vera Grant, ed., Art of Jazz: Form, Performance, Notes, exh. cat., Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 60, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005
  • Art of Jazz: Form, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016

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