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Study for “What silk with balm from advancing days” (refused etching)

Henri Matisse and Henri Matisse, Presentation Maquette, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé

Study for “What silk with balm from advancing days” (refused etching)

1931-1932

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Study for “What silk with balm from advancing days” (refused etching)

Henri Matisse and Henri Matisse, Presentation Maquette, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé

Study for “What silk with balm from advancing days” (refused etching)

Study for “What silk with balm from advancing days” (refused etching)

1931-1932

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 330 x 250 mm. (13 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.12.694.29
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.
Guillaud, Maurice, and Jacqueline Guillaud. Matisse: le rythme et la ligne. Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1987, plate no. 640 (published as “Hommage. no 2”).
Wappenschmidt, Kathrin. Henri Matisse: sein plastisches werk [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1992 (dissertation for Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel 1991), p. 383 (published as “Huldigung Nr. 2”).

Inscribed: lower right in pencil: "Quelle soie aux baumes de temps no 2 / planche refusée Henri Matisse"

Markings: chopmark: MALLARME ET MATISSE

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