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Property from the Neumann Family Collection

Henri Matisse

Madeleine II

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from the Neumann Family Collection 

Henri Matisse

(1869 - 1954)


Madeleine II

inscribed H.M., numbered 4, stamped BRONZE and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue

bronze 

height: 23 ⅜ in.   59.4 cm. 

Conceived in 1903 and cast in 1951. 

Pierre Loeb, Paris

Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above by December 1951)

Thence by descent to the present owner

The Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, 1961, n.n., n.p.

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse, His Art and His Public, New York, 1951, p. 52

Exh. Cat., Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Henri Matisse. Gemälde, Skulpturen, Handzeichnungen, Graphik, 1951, no. 24, n.p., illustration of another cast (titled Madeleine and dated 1901)

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, An Exhibition of the Sculpture of Matisse and 3 Paintings with Studies, 1953, no. 5, pl. 3, illustration of another cast (titled Madeleine, 2nd state)

Gaston Diehl, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1954, p. 26

Kunsthaus Zürich, Henri Matisse, Das plastische Werk, 1959, no. 7, p. 4, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries; The Art Institute of Chicago; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (and traveling), Henri Matisse Retrospective, 1966, fig. 98, p. 125, illustration of another cast

Giuseppe Marchiori, Matisse, New York, 1967, fig. 14, p. 18, illustration of another cast; p. 133 (titled Magdalene and dated 1901)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Grand Palais, Henri Matisse, Exposition du Centenaire, 1970, no. 231b, p. 98; p. 276, illustration of another cast

“Les Arts,” Europe: Revue Mensuelle, vol. 48, no. 495, July 1970, p. 247

Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse, roman, vol. II, Paris, 1971, fig. 124, n.p., illustration of another cast (titled Madeleine, 2e état)

Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, pls. 59-61, pp. 54-55, illustrations of another cast; p. 56

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, The Sculpture of Matisse, 1972, no. 9, p. 11, illustration of another cast; p. 50

Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery, Pioneers of Modern Sculpture, 1973, p. 53, illustration of another cast 

Albert E. Elsen, Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York, 1974, p. 80

William Tucker, Early Modern Sculpture, New York, 1974, p. 88

Exh. Cat., Nice, Musée Matisse, Henri Matisse: Sculptures, 1974, no. 7, p. 10; p. 20, illustration of another cast (titled Madeleine. 2ème état)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée national d’Art moderne, Henri Matisse: dessins et sculpture, 1975, no. 170, p. 191; n.p., illustration of another cast (Paris); no. 162 (Brussels)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Salon d’Automne, Les Fauves, 1979, no. 57, p. XIII, illustration in color of another cast (titled Madeleine

Exh. Cat., Nishinomiya, Otani Museum of Art; Hiroshima, Fine Arts Museum; Kumamoto Prefectural Art museum (and traveling), Henri Matisse et ses amis, 1981, pl. 20, illustration of another cast

Musée Rodin, ed., Rodin et la sculpture contemporaine, Paris, 1982, p. 78

Exh. Cat., Calais, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts (and traveling), De Carpeaux à Matisse: la sculpture française de 1850 à 1914 dans les musées et les collections publiques du nord de la France, 1982-83, no. 142, pp. 260 and 340; p. 261, illustration of another cast (titled Madeleine, Version II)

Exh. Cat., Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Henri Matisse, Sculptor/Painter, 1984, no. 4, fig. 24, p. 47, illustrations of another cast; p. 48

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, London, 1984, pl. 6, illustration of another cast; p. 145

Pierre Schneider, Matisse, New York, 1984, pp. 266, 376, 395, 550, 556 and 562

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters from the Smooke Collection, 1987, p. 82, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Venice, Ala Napoleonica e Museo Correr, Matisse et l’Italie, 1987, no. S7, p. 169, illustration of another cast; p. 227

Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, Henri Matisse 1869-1954: Skulpturen und Druckgraphik, 1990-91, no. 6, p. 21, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Saarbrucken, Saarlandmuseum, Henri Matisse: Zeichnungen und Skulpturen, 1991, no. 103, n.p., illustrations of another cast

Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Henri Matisse, Drawings and Sculpture, Munich, 1991, pl. 102, pp. 149 and 192; p. 150, illustration of another cast

Gilles Néret, Matisse, Paris, 1991, fig. 27, p. 18, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dation Pierre Matisse, 1992, p. 20; p. 21, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Basel and Kunsthalle Basel, Transform. BildObjektSkulptur im 20. Jahrhundert, 1992, no. 7, p. 28, illustration in color of another cast; p. 214

Exh. Cat., Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse; Cambrai, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Tourcoing, Musée des Beaux-Arts (and traveling), De Matisse à aujourd'hui: la sculpture du XXe siècle dans les collections des Musées et du Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, 1992, no. 395, n.p. and p. 31, illustrations in color of another cast; p. 253

Exh. Cat., Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, Matisse, Sculptures-dessins-dialogue, 1993-94, fig. 20, p. 38; p. 39, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery; Canberra, National Gallery of Australia and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Matisse, 1995, no. 20, figs. 4a-b, pp. 147 and 179, illustrations of another cast; p. 148

Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 10, pp. XIII, 22, 276 and 371; pp. 21 and 23, illustrations of another cast

Françoise Cachin, Henri Loyrette and Stéphane Guégan, eds., Cézanne aujourd'hui, 1997, p. 168, note 9 and p. 169 (dated circa 1901)

Exh. Cat., New York, C&M Arts, Henri Matisse: Sculpture, 1998, pl. 4, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, Les Collections Henri Matisse, 2002, pp. 85 and 87; p. 86, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Matisse: Processus/Variation, 2004, fig. 74, p. 50, illustration of another cast; p. 261

Éric Alliez and Jean-Claude Bonne, La Pensée-Matisse: portrait de l'artiste en hyperfauve, Paris, 2005, vol. I, fig. 42, pp. 234-35; vol. II, n.p., illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., The Baltimore Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art and Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, 2007, no. 15, p. 119, illustration in color of another cast; p. 261

Karen Wilkin, “The Other Matisse,” The New Criterion, vol. 25, 2007, no. 7, p. 41

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection, 2009, p. 79; p. 80, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Nice, Musée Matisse and Paris, Musée Rodin, Matisse–Rodin, 2009-10, no. 177, pp. 43, 94 and 148; p. 95, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Matisse, La Figura: La forza della linea, l’emozione del colore, 2014, no. 6, pp. 89 and 96; p. 97, illustration of another cast

Nice, Musée Matisse and Kunsthaus Zürich, Matisse–Métamorphoses, 2019-20, no. 4, pp. 23, 40 and 210; p. 41, illustration in color of another cast

Nuoro, Museo MAN, Matisse Metamorfosi, 2023, n.p., illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, The National Art Center, Henri Matisse: Formes Libres, 2024, no. 40, p. 324, illustration of another cast