Materials:
Oil, Canvas
Physical Object Description:
Inscribed, bottom, right 'HM' and 'MATISSE' down side of stretcher
Dimensions:
39.4 x 28.9 (support) cm
Accession Number:
N06241
Credit:
Purchased by the Tate Gallery with assistance from the Knapping Fund, the Art Fund, the Contemporary Art Society and private subscribers, 1954
Ownership history:
Michael Stein, Paris; Christian Tetzen Lund, Copenhagen; Tetzen Lund sale, Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen, 18-19 May 1925, lot 86 (as 'Buste d'un Maroquin', 40 x 29 cm), bought in; with Galerie Pierre, Paris, 1927; William Rees Jeffreys (1871-1954), Wivelsfield Green, Sussex, 1928; Jeffreys sale, Christie's, London, 26 November 1954, lot 113; purchased by the Tate Gallery (with assistance from the Knapping Fund, the Art Fund and the Contemporary Art Society and private subscribers), 1954