The Dance

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .
International media Interoperability Framework
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.
View manifest View in Mirador Viewer

Object Details

Artist
Henri Matisse, French, b. Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1869–1954
Date
(1911)/cast c. 1930
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
16 3/4 x 7 1/8 x 7 3/8 in. (42.5 x 18.1 x 18.7 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.3454

The artist
Frederick Hellstrom (Swedish Consul General), Minneapolis (acquired directly from Matisse)
Paul Rosenberg, New York, to 13 September 1958
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 13 September 1958-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES, New York. "Henri Matisse: Sculpture, Drawings," 25 November-20 December 1958, no. 10, ill.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 158. TOUR: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September -11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 295.
ART GALLERIES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES. "Henri Matisse," 5 January-27 February 1966, no. 121, ill. p 133. TOUR: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 11 March-24 April; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 11 May-26 June 26.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "The Sculpture of Matisse," 22 February-29 May 1972, no. 47, ill. p. 20. TOUR: WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 20 June-6 August; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, 26 September-5 November.
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART. "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," 21 January-29 April 2007, no. 59, ill. p. 174. TOUR: SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 9 June-16 September; BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, 28 October-3 February 2008.
MUSEO SANTA GIULIA, Brescia, Italy. "Henri Matisse. La Seduzione della forma (Henri Matisse. The Seduction of Form)," 11 February-12 June 2011.
LEHMBRUCK MUSEUM, Germany. "Kneeling Woman 100 Years: Wilhelm Lehmbruck in Paris 1911 with Matisse, Brancusi, Debussy, Archipenko, Rodin, Nijinsky..." 'Kneeling Woman' -- Paris 1911," 24 September 2011-22 January 2012, color ill. p. 199; p. 235.
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, MD. “Matisse’s Dancers” 14 November 2012-4 February 2013.

UNSIGNED. Sunday Blade Pictorial (Toledo), (July 26, 1959), ill.
GOLDWATER, ROBERT. "The Sculpture of Matisse," Art in America 60 (March-April 1972), p. 42.
LEGG, ALICIA. The Sculpture of Matisse (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1972), p. 20, ill.
DUTHUIT, CLAUDE. Henri Matisse (Paris, 1997), no. 54, cast 1, ill.

Label Marks

CIRE / C VALSUANI / PERDU

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Alternate Title
La Danse
Edition

1/10, from edition of 10 plus artist's proof "0"

Back to Top