The Window

1916

Henri Matisse French, 1869-1954

On View

Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Window

Artwork Date 1916

Artist Henri Matisse

Life Dates 1869-1954

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 57 1/2 × 46 inches (146.1 × 116.8 cm) Framed: 64 3/8 × 53 × 3 inches (163.5 × 134.6 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 22.14

Markings

Signed Signed, upper left: Henri Matisse

Inscriptions Inscribed, on back of canvas: H. Matisse, Issy (Seine) Inscribed, on stretcher: Interior (Les Myosotis) 1916

Provenance

Dirkan G. Kelekian;
January 30, 1922, sale, American Art Association, no. 160 (New York, New York, USA);
1922-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1921, p. 17, no. 71. (ill.). [As “Interior”]

Burroughs, Clyde H. Exhibition of Modern Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, 1922, probably cat. 51.

P[oland], R[eginald]. “Modern Paintings Acquired.” Bulletin of the DIA 5, no. 1 (October 1923): 3–7, pp. 4-5, (ill.).

Réau, Louis. L'Art Français aux Etats-Unis. Paris, 1926, p. 164.

McBride, Henry. Matisse. New York, 1930, no. 39 (ill.).

Barr Jr., Alfred H. Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1931, pp. 19, 49, no. 37 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Modern French Painting. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, 1931, p. 20, cat. 68.

Barnes, Albert C. and Violette De Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York, 1933, pp. xiii, 38, 39, 62, 117, 132, 269 (ill.), 437, no. 61. [As “Interior”]

Valentiner, William R. “Expressionism and Abstract Painting.” Art Quarterly 4, no. 3 (Summer 1941): 210–239, pp. 218–219 (ill.).

Richardson, Edgar P. Twentieth Century Painting. Detroit, 1943, pp. 11 (ill.); 18.

Barr Jr., Alfred H. Matisse: His Art and His Public. New York, 1951, pp. 190, 198, 411, 558, (ill.).

Masterpieces of Art in Memory of W. R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1959, pp. 177, 205, no. 118 (ill.).

Gottlieb, Carla. “The Role of the Window in the Art of Matisse.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 22, no. 4 (Summer 1964): 393–423, pp. 396–399, 406 (ill.).

Cummings, Frederick J. and Charles H. Elam, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 169 (ill.).

Carrà, Massimo. L’opera di Matisse: Dalla Rivolta ‘Fauve’ All’Intimismo 1904–1928. Milan, 1971, pp. 16; 55, pl. 39 (ill.); 94–95, no. 201 (ill.).

Minemura, Toshiaki. Matisse. Tokyo, 1976, pl. 19 (ill.).

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 216–217 (ill.).

D'Alessandro, Stephanie, and John Elderfield. Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917. Exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2010, pp. 270–273, no. 37 (ill.).

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© 2007 Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Please call or visit their website - one time use. Fees may apply. Reproduction, including downloading of ARS works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Artists Rights Society (ARS) 65 Bleecker St, 12th fl, New York, NY 10012, Tel: 212.420.9160, Email: info@arsny.com

Henri Matisse, The Window, 1916, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 22.14.