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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Still Life with Geranium
    Henri Matisse. Still Life with Geranium, 1906. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001332

    Still Life with Geranium

    by Henri Matisse

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower left: Henri-Matisse

    Provenance

    The artist; sold to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Mar. 1, 1907; sold to Oskar (July 21, 1875–Aug. 19, 1947) and Greta (1884–1977) Moll, Breslau, Germany (present-day Wrocław, Poland), from Oct. 27, 1908 [letter from Marguerite G. Duthuit, Sept. 17, 1975; photocopy in curatorial file]. Likely acquired by the Valentine Gallery, New York, inventory #147, fall 1927 [inventory card and letter from Valentine Dudensing to Pierre Matisse, Dec. 15, 1927, Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives, Morgan Library & Museum, New York; photocopies in curatorial file]; sold to Frank Crowninshield (June 24, 1872–Dec. 28, 1947), Paris, Apr. 11, 1928 [this and the following according to Valentine Dudensing Ledger Books, Museum of Modern Art Archives; photocopy in curatorial file]; returned to the Valentine Gallery, Paris, Aug. 1928 [letter from Valentine Dudensing to Pierre Matisse, summer 1928; photocopy in curatorial file]; sold to Frederick Clay Bartlett (1873–1953), Chicago, Oct. 27, 1928 [Cambridge 1929]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 27, 1932.

    Exhibition history

    Berlin, Paul Cassirer, X. Jahrgang, 1907/1908, September/October: I. Ausstellung, Sept. 30–Oct. 18, 1907, cat. 86, as Geranium. Moscow, Zolotoe runo/Toison d’Or, Salon Zolotogo Runa: Salon de La Toison d’Or, Apr. 18–May 24, 1908, no cat. Probably Berlin, Paul Cassirer, V. Ausstellung: Henri Matisse, Jan. 1–20, 1909, cat. 18, as Stilleben. Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kurfürstendamm, 26. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Spring 1913, cat. 201, as Geranium. Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Mar. 6–Apr. 6, 1929, cat. 61, pl. 51, as Still Life. Cleveland Museum of Art, Autumn Flower Show: The Flower in Art, Nov. 1–Dec. 1, 1935, no cat. Cleveland Museum of Art, Exhibition of Paintings by Matisse, Nov. 10–Dec. 18, 1938, no cat. Baltimore Museum of Art, Modern Painting Isms and How They Grew, Jan. 12–Feb. 11, 1940, no cat. no., as Still Life, Geraniums. Los Angeles County Museum, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, Jan. 15–Mar. 2, 1941, no. 28 (ill.), as Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit. New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Les Fauves, Oct. 20–Nov. 22, 1941, cat. 4, as Nature Morte au Geranium, circa 1906. Decatur [IL] Art Center, Masterpieces of European and American Art Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 4–25, 1945, cat. 10, as Still Life with Geranium Plant; Springfield, IL, Art Association, Apr. 4–30, 1945, cat. 10, as Still Life with Geranium Plant. Milwaukee Art Institute, Flower Paintings, Sept. 6–Oct. 2, 1945, cat. 22, as Still Life with Geraniums. Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, May 23–June 22, 1947, as Still Life with Geranium, 1905. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Apr. 3–May 10, 1948, cat. 19 (ill.), as Still Life–Geranium Plant, Fruit, 1908. Saginaw [Mich.] Museum, Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting at the Saginaw Museum, Dec. 19, 1948–Jan. 9, 1949, cat. 18, as Still Life with Geranium. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas State Fair, The Winterbotham Collection of Twentieth Century European Paintings, Oct. 8–Nov. 6, 1949, no cat. New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Les Fauves, Nov. 13–Dec. 23, 1950, cat. 32, as Geranium Plant, Fruit, 1908. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, Nov. 13, 1951–Jan. 13, 1952, cat. 14 (ill.), as Still Life–Geranium Plant, Fruit on Table, (1906); Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 5–Mar. 16, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 1–May 4, 1952; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 22–July 6, 1952. Denver Art Museum, Schleier Gallery, 10 × 10: Ten Directions by Ten Artists, Jan. 7–Feb. 14, 1954, cat. 37, as Still Life, 1906. Arts Club of Chicago, Les Fauves, Jan. 10–Feb. 15, 1956, cat. 12, as Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit on the Table, 1906. Omaha, NE, Joslyn Art Museum, Notable Paintings from Midwestern Collections, Nov. 30, 1956–Jan. 2, 1957, no cat. no., as Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit on Table. Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries, Henri Matisse Retrospective 1966, Jan. 5–Feb. 27, 1966, cat. 23 (ill.), as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit/Nature morte au géranium, (1906); Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 11–Apr. 24, 1966; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11–June 26, 1966. London, Hayward Gallery, Matisse, 1869–1954: A Retrospective Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, July 11–Sept. 8, 1968, cat. 36 (ill.), as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906. Paris, Grand Palais, Henri Matisse: Exposition du centenaire, Apr. 21–Sept. 21, 1970, cat. 83 (ill.), as Nature morte au pelargonium (Nature morte au géranium), 1906. Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikisai no shōri: Machisu to yajūha ten [Triumph of Color: Matisse and the Fauves Exhibition]/Exposition: Les Fauves, Aug. 15–Sept. 25, 1974, cat. 47 (ill.), as Nature morte au geranium et aux fruits, 1906; Osaka, Galeries Seibu Takatsuki, Nov. 15–Dec. 8, 1974, cat. 47 (ill.), as Kudamono to zeraniumu no aru seibutsu [果物とゼラニウムのある静物]/Nature morte au géranium et aux fruits, 1906; Fukuoka, Prefectural Culture Center, Nov. 5–30, 1974. Zurich, Kunsthaus, Henri Matisse, Oct. 15, 1982–Jan. 16, 1983, cat. 21 (ill.), as Nature morte au géranium, um 1907; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Jan. 29–Apr. 4, 1983. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, Sept. 24, 1992–Jan. 12, 1993, pl. 79, as Still Life with a Geranium/Nature morte au pélargonium [Le géranium], [Collioure, summer 1906]. Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago Bijutsukan-ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [100 Years of Modern Painting: Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition]/Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 21 (ill.), as Zeraniumu [The Geranium, 1906]; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994. Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, Jan. 21–Apr. 29, 2007, cat. 29 (ills.), as Still Life with a Geranium, 1906; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9–Sept. 16, 2007; Baltimore Museum of Art, Oct. 28, 2007–Feb. 3, 2008. Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no. (ill.), as The Geranium, Fall 1906. Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Inspiration Matisse, Sep. 27, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, cat. 71, as Le Géranium. New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vertigo of Color: Matisse Derain and the Origins of Fauvism, Oct. 11, 2023–Jan. 21, 2024, cat. 64; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb. 25, 2024–May 27, 2024. Riehen, Switzerland, Fondation Beyeler, Matisse - Invitation to the Voyage, Sept. 22, 2024-Jan. 26, 2025, no cat. no. The Art Institute of Chicago, Matisse’s Jazz: Rhythms in Color, Mar. 7–June 1, 2026, no cat.

    Publications

    Paul Cassirer, X. Jahrgang, 1907/1908, September/October: I. Ausstellung (Paul Cassirer, 1907), cat. 86, as Geranium. “Obzor vystavki ‘Salon Zolotogo Runa’”: “Revue du ‘Salon de La Toison d’Or,’” Zolotoe runo: Toison d’Or, nos. 7–9 (1908), pp. 32 (ill.); 62 (ill. no. IV); 64 (ill. no. IV a), as Герань, Le géranium. Paul Cassirer, V. Ausstellung: Henri Matisse (Paul Cassirer, 1909), cat. 18, as Stilleben. Berliner Secession, Katalog der XXVI. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, exh. cat. (Ausstellungshaus am Kurfürstendamm, 1913), p. 40, cat. 201, as Geranium. Roland Schacht, Henri Matisse, Künstler der Gegenwart 4 (Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, 1922), p. 15. Fogg Art Museum, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat., organized by Frederic C. Bartlett et al. (Harvard University, 1929), p. 17, cat. 61; pl. 51, as Still Life. Albert Franz Cochrane, “Fogg Museum Stages Magnificent Exhibition of French Art,” Boston Evening Transcript, Mar. 9, 1929, p. 13, as “Still Life.” Forbes Watson, “The Fogg Museum Celebrates, Part 2,”Arts 15, no. 5 (May 1929), p. [302] (ill.), as Still-Life. Alfred Gold, French Impressionists, Old Masters: 35 Paintings Selected from Exhibitions at Dr. Alfred Gold’s Gallery (Dr. Alfred Gold’s Gallery, 1930), p. [35] (ill.), as Still-life with Flowers, 1907. Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia,The Art of Henri-Matisse (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933), pp. 73; 244, no. 30 (ill.); 434, no. 30, as Still-Life with Potted Plant, Collioure. Baltimore Museum of Art, Modern Painting Isms and How They Grew, exhibition brochure (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1940), n.pag., as Still Life, Geraniums. R. H. Wilenski, Modern French Painters (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940), p. 198, as Nature morte au pot de fleurs, 1904–5. “Les Fauves Reunited in Provocative New York Exhibition,” Art Digest 16, no. 3 (Nov. 1, 1941), p. 9 (ill.), as Still Life With Geranium, 1906. Los Angeles County Museum, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum, 1941), n.pag., no. 28 (ill.), as Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit. Robert Lebel, Les Fauves, exh. cat. (Marie Harriman Gallery, 1941), cat. 4, as Nature Morte au Geranium, circa 1906. Decatur Art Center, Masterpieces of European and American Art Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Decatur Art Center, 1945), p. 7, cat. 10, as Still Life with Geranium Plant. Springfield Art Association, Masterpieces of European and American Art Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Springfield Art Association, 1945), p. 7, cat. 10, as Still Life with Geranium Plant. Milwaukee Art Institute, Flower Paintings, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1945), cat. 22, as Still Life with Geraniums. “$100,000 Art Exhibit to Open This Week at Edwards Place: To Display European and American Masterpieces,” Illinois State Journal-Register (Apr. 1, 1945), p. 6, as “Still Life.” Harriet M. Cantrall, “Artist Expresses Views on Exhibit at Edwards Place,” Illinois State Journal-Register (Apr. 8, 1945), p. 24, as “Potted Geranium.” Milwaukee Art Institute, “Flower Paintings,” Milwaukee Art Institute Bulletin 18, no. 3 (Sept. 1945), p. 2, as Geraniums. Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, exh. cat., with an essay by Katherine Kuh (Art Institute of Chicago, 1947), p. 30, as Still Life with Geranium, 1905. Henry Clifford and Henri Matisse, Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Organized in Collaboration with the Artist, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1948), pp. 38, cat. 19; n.pag., no. 19 (ill.), as Still Life–Geranium Plant, Fruit, 1908. Saginaw Museum, Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting at the Saginaw Museum, exh. cat. (Saginaw Museum, 1948), p. 9, cat. 18, as Still Life with Geranium. Sidney Janis Gallery, Les Fauves, exh. cat., essays by Georges Duthuit and Robert Lebel (Sidney Janis Gallery, 1950), cat. 32, as Geranium Plant, Fruit, 1908. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), pp. 92, 110, 558, as Still Life with a Potted Plant and Still Life–Geranium Plant, Fruit, 1906. Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, exh. cat., introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), pp. 9, cat. 14; 15 (ill.), as Still Life–Geranium Plant, Fruit on Table, (1906). Sidney Janis Gallery, 5 Years of Janis: 5th Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953), no. 67 (ill.). Gaston Diehl, Henri Matisse (Éditions Pierre Tisné, 1954), p. 47, as Nature morte au geranium. John Ulbricht, 10 × 10: Ten Directions by Ten Artists, exh. cat. (Denver Art Museum, 1954), cat. 37, as Still Life, 1906. Arts Club of Chicago, Les Fauves, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1956), cat. 12, as Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit on the Table, 1906. Three Exhibitions: Notable Paintings from Midwestern Collections, Notable Collections at Joslyn Art Museum, Anniversary Purchase Exhibition, exh. cat., introduction by Eugene Kingman (Joslyn Art Museum, 1956), n.pag., as Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit on Table. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, repr., 1968), p. 304, as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906. Edward Barry, “Wonderful World of Art: A Legacy that Grows—Winterbotham Collection,” Chicago Tribune (Aug. 25, 1963), sec. 5, p. 4, as Still Life. Jean Leymarie, “The Painting of Matisse,” trans. Caroline Lumley, in UCLA Arts Council and UCLA Art Galleries, Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966, exh. cat. (University of California Press, 1966), p. 12, as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit. UCLA Arts Council and UCLA Art Galleries, “Reproductions of the Paintings” and “Catalogue of the Exhibition: Paintings,” in Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966, exh. cat. (University of California Press, 1966), pp. 52, no. 23 (ill.); 184–85, cat. 23, as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit/Nature morte au géranium, (1906). Jean Guichard-Meili, Matisse, trans. Caroline Moorehead, A Praeger World of Art Profile (Frederick A. Praeger, 1967), p. 231, as Still-life with Geranium Plant and Fruit. Matisse, 1869–1954: A Retrospective Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, exh. cat. with a foreword by Gabriel White and an introduction by Lawrence Gowing (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1968), pp. 81 (ill.); 162, cat. 36, as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit/Nature morte au géranium, 1906. Pierre Schneider, Henri Matisse: Exposition du Centenaire, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1970), pp. 39; 72–3, cat. 83; 156, no. 83 (ill.), as Nature morte au pelargonium (Nature morte au géranium), 1906. Massimo Carrà, “Catalogo delle opera,” in Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L’opera di Matisse: dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all’intimismo, 1904–1928, Classici dell’Arte 49 (Rizzoli Editore, 1971), pp. 88–89, cat. 67 (ill.), as Natura morta con geranio e frutta, 1906–07. Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse (Harry N. Abrams, 1971), pp. 63; 64, pl. 75, as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906. Francois Daulte, “Katarogu [カタログ]/Catalogue,”in Shikisai no shōri: Machisu to yajūha ten [色彩の勝利:マチスと野獣派展; Triumph of Color: Matisse and the Fauves Exhibition]/Exposition Les Fauves, exh. cat. ed. Shinichi Segui (Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 1974), cat. 47 (ill.), as Kudamono to zeraniumu no aru seibutsu [果物とゼラニウムのある静物]/Nature morte au géranium et aux fruits, 1906. Donald E. Gordon, Modern Art Exhibitions, 1900–1916, vol. 2 (Prestel-Verlag, 1974), pp. 265, no. 127; 694, no. 201, as Le géranium and Geranium. Theodore Reff, “Matisse: Meditations on a Statuette and Goldfish,” Arts Magazine 51, 3 (Nov. 1976), p. 115, n. 4, as Still Life with a Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906. Lawrence Gowing, Matisse (Thames & Hudson, 1979), pp. 64, fig. 45; 65; 207, no. 45, as Nature morte aux géraniums (Still-Life: Geranium Plant on Table), 1906.  A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 14; 54, no. 2F7; microfiche 2, no. F7 (ill.), as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906. Felix Baumann, et. al., “Katalog,” in Henri Matisse, exh. cat. (Kunsthaus Zürich/Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1982), pp. [124–25], cat. 21 (ill.), as Nature morte au géranium, um 1907. Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, “Matisse und seine Sammler,” in Felix Baumann, et. al., Henri Matisse, exh. cat. (Kunsthaus Zürich/Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1982), p. 45, as Nature morte au géranium, 1906. Jack D. Flam, “Matisse and the Fauves,” in “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, vol. 1, exh. cat., ed. William Rubin (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984), pp. 220 (ill.), 221, as Still Life with Geranium Plant, 1906.  Michael P. Mezzatesta, Henri Matisse: Sculptor/Painter: A Formal Analysis of Selected Works, exh. cat. (Kimbell Art Museum, 1984), p. 53, as Still Life with Geraniums, 1907. Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse (Arts Council of Great Britain/Thames & Hudson, 1984), pp. 29; 30, fig. 39; 149, no. 39, as Pelargonium and Still-life with Geraniums and Fruit, 1907. “The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: Plates,” “Checklist of the Collection, 1921–86,” and “Selected References,” in The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition, with acknowledgements by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), pp. 26 (ill.), 58, 63, as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906. Catherine C. Bock, “Woman before an Aquarium and Woman on a Rose Divan: Matisse in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, no. 2 The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection (1986), pp. 203; 218, n. 2, as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906. Lyn DelliQuadri, “A Living Tradition: The Winterbothams and Their Legacy,” in The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), p. 11. Jack Flam, Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869–1918 (Cornell University Press, 1986), p. 178, fig. 168, as Still Life with Geranium Plant, 1906. Jean Guichard-Meili, Matisse (Somogy, 1986), p. 129, as Nature morte au pelargonium, 1906-07. John Elderfield, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992), pp. 57; 61; 157, pl. 79, as Still Life with a Geranium/Nature morte au pélargonium [Le géranium], [Collioure, summer 1906]. Centre Georges Pompidou, Henri Matisse 1904–1917, exh. cat. (Le Centre, 1993), p. 51, as Nature morte au géranium. Hiroshi Kirihara, “21,” in Judith A. Barter et al., Shikago bijutsukan-ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [100 Years of Modern Painting: Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition]/Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. eds. Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, et al. (Asahi Shimbun, 1994), pp. 86–87, cat. 21 (ill.), as Zeraniumu/The Geranium, 1906. Margherita Andreotti, “The Joseph Winterbotham Collection, ”Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, no. 2 (1994), pp. 134, 135 (ill.), 191, as The Geranium (Le Géranium), summer 1906. Sophia Shaw Pettus, “Checklist of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1921–1994,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, no. 2 (1994), p. 184 (ill.), as The Geranium, 1906. Frank Milner, Henri Matisse (Bison Books Ltd., 1994), p. 53 (ill.), as Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1907. Yve-Alain Bois, “On Matisse: The Blinding: For Leo Steinberg,” trans. Greg Sims, October 68 (Spring 1994), p. 114, as Still Life with Geranium. Natalia Brodskaya, The Fauves: The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg; The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, trans. Paul Williams, Tomasz Lasica, and Elizabeth Hinton (Parkstone/Aurora, 1995), p. 39 (ill.). Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. 1 (Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1995), pp. 418–19, cat. 74 (ill.), as “Le géranium.” Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. 2 (Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1995), pp. 1432, cat. 74; 1459, stock no. 15805; 1466, photo no. 8246, as Le géranium. Catherine C. Bock-Weiss, Henri Matisse: A Guide to Research, Artist Resource Manuals 1, ed. Wolfgang M. Freitag, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1424 (Garland Publishing, 1996), pp. 430, no. 1350; 681; 689, as The Geranium, Nature morte au pélargonium (Still Life with Geranium), and Still Life with Geranium (Nature morte au pélargonium), 1906. Genevieve Morgan, ed., Matisse: The Artist Speaks (Collins Publishers, 1996), pp. 22 (ill.); 94, pl. 22, as The Geranium, 1906. James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), pp. 8, 16 (ill.), 159, as The Geranium, 1906. Yve-Alain Bois, “Préface/Preface,” in Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, ed. Claude Duthuit, trans. Gregory Sims (C. Duthuit, 1997), pp. 17; 22, n. 12; 375; 379, n. 12, as Nature morte au pélargorium and Still Life with a Geranium, 1906. Peter Kropmanns, “Matisse und die Molls, seine bedeutendsten deutschen Sammler,” in Oskar Moll: Gemälde und Aquarelle, exh. cat. (Wienand Verlag, 1997), p. 80 (ill.), as Nature morte au pélargorium (Le géranium), 1906. Jean-René Gaborit with Dimitri Salmon, “Le Tireur d’épine,” in D’après l’antique, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2000), p. 222, fig. 67 a, as Nature morte au pelargonium, 1906.  Francesca Bianchi, “Matisse in Germania (1906–1914),” Ricerche di Storia dell’arte 81 (2003), p. 37, as Géranium, 1906–07. Burkhard Liesman, Die Grosse Inspiration: Deutsche Künstler in der Académie Matisse, vol. 3, exh. cat. (Kunst-Museum Ahlen, 2004), p. 16 (ill.), as Nature morte au pélargorium (le géranium), 1906. “Catalogue des œuvres,” in Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un été fauve, exh. cat., ed. Joséphine Matamoros and Dominique Szymusiak (Gallimard, 2005), p. 235, cat. 183, as Nature morte au pélargonium, hiver 1906–07. Todd Stuart Cronan, “The Despair of the Physical: Materialism in George Santayana and Henri Matisse, 1900–1950” (Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2005), pp. iv, no. 34; 258–260; 300; 364; 418, fig. 5.34, as Still Life with a Geranium and Nature morte aupélargorium, 1906. Jack Flam, “Matisse à Collioure: Evolution du style et datation des tableaux 1905–1907,” trans. Jeanne Bouniort, in Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un été fauve, exh. cat., ed. Joséphine Matamoros and Dominique Szymusiak (Gallimard, 2005), pp. 43 (ill.); 44, as Nature morte au pélargonium, hiver 1906–07. Rémi Labrusse and Jacqueline Munck, Matisse-Derain: La vérité du fauvisme (Hazan, 2005), pp. 101, 282, 295, 312, 323, as Nature morte au géraniums, Le Géranium [Nature morte au pélargonium], Géranium [Nature morte au géranium], Le Géranium, Nature morte au géranium, 1906. Gill Perry, “Playing with Paint: Pink Onions,” in Dorthe Aagesen et al., Matisse Masterpieces at Statens Museum for Kunst (Statens Museum for Kunst, 2005), pp. 94–95, fig. 3; 98–99, as Still Life with a Geranium, 1906. Dorothy Kosinski et al., Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, exh. cat. (Baltimore Museum of Art/Dallas Museum of Art/Nasher Sculpture Center/Yale University Press, 2007), pp. [vi] (ill.); 125; 126 (ill.); 127; 138; 268, cat. 29; [296], as Still Life with a Geranium, 1906. Yve-Alain Bois, “Address Unknown: The Sculpture of Henri Matisse,” Artforum 45 (May 2007), p. 332 (ill.), as Still Life with a Geranium, 1906. Catherine Bock-Weiss, Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009), p. 190, n. 4, as Still Life with Geranium and Fruit, 1906. Magdalena Dabrowski, “Catalogue: Henri Matisse, Woman Leaning on Her Hands,” in Sabine Rewald, The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Yale University Press, 2009), p. 85, fig. 46, as The Geranium, 1906. Stephanie D’Alessandro, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, with contributions by Renée DeVoe Mertz, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Kimbell Art Museum, 2013), pp. 12, 21 (ill.), as The Geranium, fall 1906. Bernhard Echte and Walter Feilchenfeldt, eds., Kunstsalon Paul Cassiere: Die Ausstellungen 1905–1908, Quellenstudien zur Kunst 7 (Nimbus, 2013), pp. 522, 796, as Geranium. Bernhard Echte and Walter Feilchenfeldt, eds., Kunstsalon Paul Cassiere: Die Ausstellungen 1908–1910, Quellenstudien zur Kunst 8 (Nimbus, 2013), pp. 134 (ill.), 136 [?], as Stilleben mit Geranien, 1906. Stephanie D’Alessandro, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, with contributions by Renée DeVoe Mertz (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 10, 21 (ill.), as The Geranium, fall 1906. “Still Life with Geranium,” in Matisse Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Stephanie D’Alessandro (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), cat. 11, https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/41/41_anchor. 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    Artist
    Henri Matisse / French, 1869–1954
    Date
    1906
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    100.3 × 81.5 cm (39 1/2 × 32 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    France
    Department
    Modern Art
    Credit line
    Joseph Winterbotham Collection
    Accession no.
    1932.1342

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