id:			75551
accession number:	2020.111
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.111
updated:		2024-05-14 11:07:12.489000

Tulips, 1914. Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Oil on canvas; unframed: 95.6 x 70.8 cm (37 5/8 x 27 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.111 © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Tulips
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			1914
creation date earliest:		1914
creation date latest:		1914
current location:		223 20th Century Avant-Garde
creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
copyright:			© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	France
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 95.6 x 70.8 cm (37 5/8 x 27 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Artist's signature:  ‘Henri.Matisse’
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Henri Matisse. G</em>alerien Thannhauser, Berlin, Germany (1930).', 'opening_date': '1930-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Henri Matisse</em>. Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (August 9–September 15, 1931).', 'opening_date': '1931-09-15T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries. </em>Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (November 5–December 2, 1986).', 'opening_date': '1986-12-02T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Collection of the Artist
	date: 1914
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	(Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France, April 4, 1914, acquired from the artist)
	date: 1914
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	(Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France, June 5, 1914, sold to Fritz Gurlitt)
	date: 1914
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			* <div><!--block-->According to Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, <em>Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune</em> (Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1995), vol. I, p. 533, cat. no. 141, ill.</div>
			
			
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	(Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin Germany)
	date: possibly by 1930
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			* <div><!--block-->This painting was included in the exhibition “Henri Matisse,” at the Galerien Thannhauser, Berlin, in 1930, cat. no. 24. See also <em>Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries</em> (New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1986), cat. no. 31.</div>
			
			
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	(Galerien Mattiesen, Berlin, Germany sold to Karl Bett)
	date: by 1931
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			* <div><!--block-->“Henri Matisse,” Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, August 9 – September 15, 1931, cat. no. 43, noted this painting was in the Collection de Monsieur Karl Bett, Berlin.</div>
			
			
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	Karl Bett, Berlin, Germany and Hampstead, London, sold to Marlborough Fine Art, London, and E.V. Thaw and Co., New York, NY
	date: about 1985
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			* <div><!--block-->Provenance between 1930 and 1996 is according to <em>Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries</em> (New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1986), cat. no. 31, and documentation supplied by Richard Feigen and Co. in the curatorial file.&nbsp;</div>
			
			
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	(Sold at Christie's New York, NY, April 30, 1996, lot 52)
	date: 1996
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	(Sold at Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, NY, May 7, 2001, lot 36)
	date: May 7, 2001
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	Private collection, New York, NY
	date: ?
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	Richard Feigen and Co., New York, NY
	date: ?
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	Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2001–2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Purrmann, Hans. <em>Henri Matisse</em>. Berlin, Germany: Galerien Thannhauser, 1930.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 16, no. 24
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	<em>Henri Matisse. Kunsthalle, Basel, 9. August-15 September 1931.</em> Basel: Kunsthalle, 1931.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 12, no. 43
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	Flam, Jack D. <em>Matisse, the Man and His Art, 1869-1918</em>. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 380; Reproduced: P. 384, fig. 381
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	<em>Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries: 5 November-2 December 1986, Marlborough Gallery, Inc.</em> New York, N.Y.: Marlborough Gallery, 1986.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 31
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	Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Michel Dauberville. <em>Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune</em>. Paris, France: Bernheim-Jeune, 1995.
	page number: 	Reproduced: Vol. 1, P. 533, no. 141
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	“A Historic Gift. Longtime CMA supporters Joseph and Nancy Keithley give 114 works, the largest gift in more than 60 years.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>60, no. 3 (Summer 2020): Cover, 6-9.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 8; Mentioned: P. 7.
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	Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Color, Sensation, and Memory: Themes in the Keithleys’ gift and promised gift.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>62, no. 3, 2022: 4-7.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 5.
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	"Exhibitions: Transformative Gift." <em>Art &amp; Antiques </em>XLV, no. 10 (November 2022): 48-53.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 50
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