Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Henrietta III
MATISSE, Henri (1869 - 1954)
Although principally a painter, Matisse occasionally produced sculpture. This portrait of the model Henriette Darricarrére is the last and most abstracted in a series of three bronze heads produced between 1925 and 1929. It was cast in an edition of ten. A critic compared it with a mediaeval reliquary head: 'The object attains an autonomous status as a type of contemporary reliquary of modern art'.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 2421
Creation/Production
MATISSE, Henri
Date: 1929
Acquisition
Purchase, 1975
Measurements
Height
(cm): 40.1
Width
(cm): 21.3
Depth
(cm): 27
Height
(in): 15
Width
(in): 8
Depth
(in): 10
Techniques
bronze
Techniques (sculpture)
Fine Art - sculpture
Material
bronze with black patina
Location
Gallery 13
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