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Gallery Text
This still life attests to Matisse’s admiration of Cézanne,
and particularly of his manipulation of spatial
relationships. It contains many of the objects typically
found in Cézanne’s still lifes, and replicates his
signature rupture of planar space and presentation of
objects that seem unmoored and inconsistently
dimensional. Recent technical examination reveals that
Matisse adjusted and changed the main color
oppositions of background and tabletop, eventually
choosing gray and blue, as he did frequently during this
period of his career. Evidence of his previous
experimentations with color, especially a reddishbrown hue, is visible in the valleys of the large drying
cracks that can be seen throughout. Many of Matisse’s
paintings from this era contain these cracks, which
occurred when he did not wait for a layer of paint to dry
completely before painting over it.
Identification and Creation
Object Number
1951.51
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People
Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869
- 1954 Nice, France)
Title
Still Life with Apples
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1916
Culture
French
Location
Level 1, Room 1220, European Art, 19th–20th century,
Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906
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Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
32.8 x 41.1 cm (12 15/16 x 16 3/16 in.)
framed: 52 x 60 x 8.9 cm (20 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
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Signed: l.r.: Henri Matisse
inscription: verso, blue chalk, crayon or colored pencil:
Ph
inscription: verso, red chalk, crayon or colored pencil:
114
inscription: verso, blue chalk: 42 [encircled]
inscription: verso, black ink: 834
Provenance
Paul Guillaume, Paris, France, 1925, 1935. By 1930, per
caption of photo, Paul Guillaume dining room dated c.
1930, Georgel 2006
Maurice Wertheim, 1937, Bequest to Fogg Art
Museum, 1951.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from
the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906
Copyright
© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.51
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
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Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Collection Particulière Paul Guillaume, exh. cat.,
Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, France, 1929)
Waldemar George, La Grande Peinture Contemporaine
a la Collection Paul Guillaume, exh. cat., Editions des
Arts à Paris (Paris, France, 1929), p. 78, ill. p. 79
Henry McBride, "Matisse in America", Cahiers d'Art, C.
Zervos (Paris, France, 1931), vol. VI, no. 5-6, repr. fig. 59
Henri Matisse: exposition organisee au profit de
l'Orphelinat des arts, exh. cat., Galerie Georges Petit
(Paris, France, 1931), no. 31
Giovanni Scheiwiller, Henri Matisse (Milan, Italy, 1933),
repr. pl. 8
Hommage à Paul Guillaume, exh. cat., Petit Palais,
Paris (Paris, France, 1935)
Raymond Escholier, Henri Matisse, Henri Floury (Paris,
France, 1937), p. 60, repr.
Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings,
1898-1939, exh. cat., Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York,
NY, 1943), repr. no. 9
Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Today's Collectors: Modern
Milestones", Art News (June 1946), vol. XLV, no. 4, p.
64; repr. in b/w p. 29
French Painting since 1870, lent by Maurice Wertheim,
Class of 1906, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge,
MA, 1946), repr. p. 56
La Peinture Française Depuis 1870: Collection Maurice
Wertheim , exh. cat., Tom Taylor (Québec, Canada,
1949), p. 67, repr. p. 68
The Maurice Wertheim Catalogue: Modern French Art-
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- Monet to Picasso, exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of
Art (Raleigh, NC, 1960), repr. p. 23
The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Modern French Art-Manet to Picasso, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston (Houston, TX, 1962), p. 26, repr. pl. 8
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, exh. cat., Maine
State Museum (Augusta, ME, 1972), no. 15, repr.
M. Carra, Tout L'Oeuvre Peint de Matisse, 1904-1928
(Paris, France, 1982), no. 214
Vivien Raynor, "Art: Impressionist Show at the I.B.M.
Gallery" [review], The New York Times (New York, NY,
April 26, 1985), p. C24
John O'Brian, Degas to Matisse: the Maurice Wertheim
Collection, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Fogg Art
Museum (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1988), no.
29, pp. 120-121, 158, repr. in color p. 121
The Maurice Wertheim Collection and Selected
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings and
Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum , exh. cat., Harry N.
Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1990), repr. in color no. 39,
p. 109
Pierre Georgel, La Collection Jean Walter et Paul
Guillaume (2006), pp. , fig. 3
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum/
Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA,
2008), p. 193, ill.
Gabriel Dunn, "Experimental and Innovative: Matisse
Paintings from the Wertheim Collection" (thesis
(certificate in conservation), Straus Center for
Conservation and Technical Studies, 2012),
Unpublished, pp. 1-50 passim
Elizabeth M. Rudy, "Researching the Wertheim
Collection at the Harvard Art Museums", Collections: A
Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
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(Summer 2014), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 301-6
Exhibition History
Collection particulière Paul Guillaume au profit du
Musèe du Luxembourg, Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris,
06/01/1929 - 06/30/1929
Henri Matisse, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 06/16/1931
- 06/25/1931
Hommage à Paul Guillaume, Petit Palais, Paris, Paris,
05/01/1935 - 05/31/1935
Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings,
1898-1939, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York,
02/09/1943 - 02/27/1943
French Painting since 1870 lent by Maurice Wertheim,
Class of 1906, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
06/01/1946 - 09/07/1946; National Gallery of Art,
Washington, 07/01/1953 - 09/13/1953
La Peinture Française depuis 1870, Musée de la
Province de Quebec, 07/12/1949 - 08/07/1949
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 07/01/1952 - 09/14/1952
French Paintings Since 1870 from the Maurice
Wertheim Collection, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, 06/01/1953 - 09/30/1953
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 06/15/1957 - 09/15/1957
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Minneapolis Institute
of Arts, Minneapolis, 06/10/1958 - 08/31/1958
The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Modern French Art-Monet to Picasso, North Carolina Museum of Art,
Raleigh, 06/17/1960 - 09/04/1960
The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso,
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston,
06/13/1962 - 09/02/1962
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The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Baltimore Museum
of Art, Baltimore, 06/20/1963 - 09/01/1963
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Currier Museum of
Art, Manchester, 06/24/1965 - 09/07/1965
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Rhode Island School
of Design, Museum of Art, Providence, 09/03/1968 09/22/1968
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Montgomery
Museum of Art, Montgomery, 06/01/1971 - 09/30/1971
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Maine State
Museum, Augusta, 06/01/1972 - 09/01/1972
Manet to Matisse: The Maurice Wertheim Collection,
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, 04/09/1985 05/25/1985
The Maurice Wertheim Collection and Selected
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings and
Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum , Isetan Department
Store, Tokyo, 03/01/1990 - 04/10/1990; Yamaguchi
Prefectural Museum of Art, 04/14/1990 - 05/13/1990
Re-View: S427 Impressionist & Postimpressionist Art,
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
Cambridge, 08/02/2008 - 06/18/2011
32Q: 1220 Wertheim , Harvard Art Museums, 11/16/2014
- 01/01/9999
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