Henrietta III
MATISSE, Henri
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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Details
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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