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Henrietta III

MATISSE, Henri

Henrietta III
Image: By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
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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'.

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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 2421

Creation/Production

MATISSE, Henri
Date: 1929

Acquisition

Purchase, 1975

Techniques

Bronze
Techniques (sculpture)
Fine Art - sculpture

Material

Bronze with black patina

Location

in store

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  • Female Figure
  • Fine Art
  • Matisse, Henri
  • Representational
  • Sculpture

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