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Henrietta III

MATISSE, Henri

© 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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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

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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  • Art And Design Movements
  • Female Figure
  • Fine Art
  • Matisse, Henri
  • People
  • Representational
  • Sculpture

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