Bathers by a River

1. The artist; sold to Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), Paris, Sept. 14, 1926 [Chicago 2010]; by descent to his wife, Mme. Paul Guillaume (a.k.a. Domenica, née Juliette Léonie Lacaze; remarried as Mme. Jean Walter, 1898–1977), Paris, 1934; sold to Henry Pearlman (1895–1974), New York, summer 1951 [letter from Rose Pearlman, Dec. 4, 1975; copy in curatorial file]; acquired through exchange by the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 2, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galerie Paul Guillaume, Exposition des deux célèbres tableaux, Les Demoiselles à la Rivière et La Leçon de piano, par Henri Matisse, Oct. 1–14, 1926, no cat.
• Probably New York, Valentine Gallery lobby, late 1930s–c. 1940, no cat.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Large Scale Modern Paintings, Apr. 1–May 4, 1947, no cat.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Apr. 3–May 10, 1948, cat. 43 (ill.), as Girls Bathing (Au Bord de la Rivière), 1917.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Autour de 1900, June 14–Oct. 5, 1950, cat. 120 (ill.), as Jeunes filles à la rivière, 1914.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, Nov. 13, 1951–Jan. 13, 1952, cat. 47, as Bathers by a River (Women at a Spring), (1916, 1917; begun earlier); Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 5–Mar. 16, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 1–May 4, 1952; San Francisco Museum of Art, May 22–July 6, 1952.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, Sept. 24, 1992–Jan. 19, 1993, cat. 193 (ill.), as Bathers by a River, Femmes à la rivière [Baigneuses; Jeunes filles au bain], Issy-les-Moulineaux, spring 1909 to 1910; spring–early autumn 1913; spring–autumn 1916.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917, Mar. 20–June 20, 2010, cats. 5, 5f–n, 10, 10b, 10g, 10i–10o, 16, 16a–i, 16m–p, 21, 21a–21d, 21g–21k, 46, 46a–s, 54, 54a, 54d–e (ill.), as Bathers by a River, March–May 1909, fall 1909–spring 1910, May 1913, early November 1913, early spring–November 1916, January–October (?) 1917; New York, Museum of Modern Art, July 18–Oct. 11, 2010.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, June 20–Sept. 3, 2012, no cat. no. (ill.), as Bathers by a River, March 1909–10, May–November 1913, and early spring 1916–October (?) 1917.
• 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 Bathers by a River, March 1909–10, May–November 1913, and early spring 1916–October (?) 1917.

• Charles Estienne, “Des tendances de la peinture moderne: Entretien avec M. Henri-Matisse,” Les nouvelles 2, no. 106 (Apr. 12, 1909), p. 4.
• Alvin Langdon Coburn, Men of Mark (Duckworth and Co./Mitchell Kennerly, 1913), pl. 33 (detail).
• Ernst Goldschmidt, “Strejftog i Kunsten: Henri Matisse,” Politiken, Jan. 5, 1913, p. 13.
• Robert Rey, “Beaux-Arts and Curiosité: Une heure chez Matisse,” L’opinion 7, no. 2 (Jan. 10, 1914), p. 60.
• Axel Salto, “Henri Matisse,” Klingen (Apr. 1918), n. pag.
• Ameen Rihani, “Artists in War-Time, Part II,” International Studio 68, no. 269 (July 1919), p. VI.
• Amédée Ozenfant and Charles–Édouard Jeanneret, “Recherches,” L’Esprit nouveau 22 (Apr. 1924), n. pag. (ill.).
• Sylvain Bonmariage, “Henri Matisse et la peinture pure,” Cahiers d’art 9 (1926), pp. 239 (ill.), 240, as Jeunes Filles au bain and Jeunes filles au bain, terminé en 1918.
• Gustav Kahn, Review, Le quotidien (Autumn 1926).
• André Warnod, “Les expositions de la semaine: Retour de vacances—Henri Matisse,” Comœdia (Oct. 7, 1926), p. 3, as Les Demoiselles de la Riviera.
• Les arts à Paris (1927), pp. 19–22.
• Florant Fels, Henri-Matisse, XXe siècle 3 (Éditions des Croniques du Jour, 1929), pl. 10, as Femmes au ruisseau, 1917.

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