Reclining Nude III

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Object Details

Artist
Henri Matisse, French, b. Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1869–1954
Date
(1929/cast 1929)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
7 3/8 x 18 3/8 x 6in., 24lb. (18.7 x 46.7 x 15.2cm, 10.9kg) base: 1 x 6 3/4 x 19 3/4in. (2.5 x 17.1 x 50.2cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.3457

Hanover Gallery, London, to 9 July 1958
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 9 July 1958-17 May 1996
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
HANOVER GALLERY, London. "Giacometti, Marini, Matisse, Moore," 24 June-13 September 1958, no. 30, ill.
ART GALLERY OF TORONTO. 1 October-14 November 1958.
FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES, New York. "Henri Matisse: Sculpture, Drawings," 25 November-20 December 1958, no. 18, ill.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 161. 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. 299, ill. p. 82.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "The Sculpture of Matisse," 22 February-29 May 1972, no. 59, ill. p. 39. TOUR: WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 20 June-6 August; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, 26 September-5 November.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 340, pp. 721-22.
HAKONE OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, Hakone, Japan (organizer). "Sculpture by Master Painters," no. 26. TOUR: UENO ROYAL MUSEUM, Tokyo, 20 April-20 May 1979; NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART, Osaka, 25 May-24 June; HAKONE OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, Hakone, 30 June-29 July; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Kamakura, 11 August-September; HIROSHIMA PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF ART, 29 September-21 October.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Tokyo. "Matisse," 20 March-17 May 1981, no. 104, ill. p. 134, p. 226. TOUR: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Kyoto, 26 May-19 July 1981.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Henri Matisse: A Retrospective," 24 September 1992-19 January 1993, no. 285, ill.
TATE GALLERY OF MODERN ART, London. "Matisse Picasso," 8/9 May-18 August 2002. TOUR: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, 12 February-27 May 2003.

DEVREE, HOWARD. "Matisse: Sculptor," New York Times (30 November 1958), sec 2, p. 9, ill.
UNSIGNED. "Great Sculpture at the Guggenheim," Art in America 50 (Fall 1962), ill. p. 19.
UNSIGNED. "The Sculpture of Matisse," Life 59 (11 September 1970), p. 43, colorpl.
SONTAG, RAYMOND J. A Broken World, 1919-1939 (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), ill. 23.
ELSEN, ALBERT E. The Sculpture of Henri Matisse (New York: Abrams, 1972), pp. 157-59, ill. 213.
HUGHES, ROBERT. "Matisse: A Strange, Healing Calm," Time 99 (6 March 1972), colorpl. p. 54.
LEGG, ALICIA. The Sculpture of Matisse (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1972), p. 35, ill. p. 39.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), pp. 233, 721-22, ill. 340.
UNSIGNED. "Sculpture by Master Painters," Sankei Shimbun (April 22, 1979), p. 2 (evening edition)
SCHNEIDER, PIERRE. Henri Matisse (Paris: Libraire Ernest Flammarion, 1984), p. 557, ill.
DUTHUIT, CLAUDE. Henri Matisse (Paris: 1997), no. 71.
SOTHEBY'S. "Henri Matisse," sale catalogue (London: 26 June 2001), p. 80 (essay on lot 29 refers to the bronze).

Signature
Incised on Back of Figure's Left Arm: ...HM
Inscriptions
Incised On Back Of Figure's Left Arm: 7/10 HM

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Edition

7/10 (this work may really be cast no. 1 based on casting information).

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