Pierre Matisse

Aristide Maillol and Henri Matisse in Maillol’s Garden

c. 1930

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Pierre Matisse

Aristide Maillol and Henri Matisse in Maillol’s Garden

Pierre Matisse

Aristide Maillol and Henri Matisse in Maillol’s Garden

c. 1930

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 443 x 325 mm. (17 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland

Object Number 1950.1977.19.8

Henri Matisse’s son, Pierre, who was a major dealer of modern art in New York, took a number of photographs of his father at work and interacting with other artists. Here Matisse and his friend Maillol are looking at Maillol’s sculpture, Monument to Debussy, 1930.

Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; BMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," Dallas, January 21 - April 29, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9 - September 16, 2007; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 28, 2007- February 3, 2008, shown BMA only.

Inscribed: by later hand?, upper center verso in black ink: "Maillol and Henri Matisse in Maillol's garden/ looking at sculpture 'Seated Nude' (bronze) - by Maillol/ now in Toledo Museum of Art"; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: "President - Mr. Goslein/ Curator Mr. Blake Godwin"