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Henrietta III
MATISSE, Henri
(Artist)
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
Acquisition
Purchase, 1975
Measurements
Height
(cm): 40.1
Width
(cm): 21.3
Depth
(cm): 27.0
Height
(in): 15 13/16
Width
(in): 8 7/16
Depth
(in): 10 5/8
Material
Bronze with black patina
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