Art Institute of Chicago

Daisies

Henri Matisse · 1939

Provenance

Ownership history

Paul Rosenberg (1881–1959), Paris and Bordeaux [Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume, Paul Rosenberg Collection, ERR inventory no. PR 25; photocopy in curatorial object file]. Confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), German Embassy, Paris [ERR inventory card mentioned above]. Transferred to the Musée du Louvre, Paris, Nov. 1940 [ERR database mentioned above]; transferred to the Jeu de Paume, Paris, from Sep. 5, 1941 [ERR inventory card mentioned above]. Restituted to Paul Rosenberg, New York, by Nov. 1, 1945 [Edsel and Witter 2009; email from Nicholas Smith, Victoria and Albert Museum Archive, Aug. 18, 2011; photocopy in curatorial object file]; sold to Helen Pauling Donnelley (Aug. 28, 1896–Sep. 3, 1984), Chicago and Sausalito, Calif., by Feb. 15, 1952 [Letters from Paul Rosenberg & Co. to Mrs. H. P. Donnelley, Feb. 15 and Feb. 26, 1952, MoMA, Paul Rosenberg Archives, II.H.7]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 18, 1983.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Salon d’automne 1945, Sep. 28–Oct. 29, 1945, cat. 14, as Le bouquet de marguerites, fleurs, 1939.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by Picasso and Matisse, Nov. 1, 1945–Jan. 11, 1946, cat. 26 (ill.), as Marguerites.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, Nov. 13, 1951–Jan. 13, 1952; Cleveland, Museum of Art, Feb. 5–Mar. 16, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 1–May 4, 1952, addendum to catalogue, no cat. no., as Daisies, (1939); San Francisco, Museum of Art, May 22–July 6, 1952 (Chicago only).
Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, Apr. 15–May 7, 1961, not in cat.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, Sept. 24, 1992–Jan. 12, 1993, pl. 320, as Daisies / Les Marguerites / Fleurs et figure, pot arabe, by July 16, 1939.
Saint Louis Art Museum, Matisse: Image into Sign, Feb. 19–Apr. 25, 1993, cat. 10 (ill.), as Daisies, 1939.
Brisbane, Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Matisse, Mar. 29–May 16, 1995, cat. 170 (ill.), as Daisies / Les Marguerites, 1939; Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, May 27–July 9, 1995; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, July 19–Sept. 3, 1995.
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry, Jan. 31–May 2, 1999, fig. 116, as Daisies, July 1939.
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne,Matisse: In Search of True Painting, Mar. 7–June 18, 2012; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, July 14–Oct. 28, 2012; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dec. 4, 2012–Mar. 17, 2013 (Paris only).
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 Daisies, July 16, 1939.
New York, The Jewish Museum, Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, Aug. 20, 2021–Jan. 9, 2022, no cat. no.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Matisse in the 1930s, Oct. 20, 2022–Jan. 29, 2023, cat. 156; Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, as Matisse: Cahiers d’art-Le tournant de annés 1930, Mar. 1–May 29, 2023; Nice, Musée Matisse, June 32–Sept. 24, 2023 (Philadelphia only).

Literature

Published references

L’Association française d’action and the British Council, Exhibition of Paintings by Picasso and Matisse, exh. cat. (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1945), cat. 26 (ill.), as Marguerites.
Société du salon d’automne, Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture, et art décoratif, exh. cat. (E. Durand, 1945), p. 45, cat. 14, as Le bouquet de marguerites, fleurs, 1939.
Louis Parrot, “Matisse au Salon d’automne,” Labyrinthe 2, no. 13 (Oct. 15, 1945), p. 4 (ill.).
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), pp. 224, 253, 266, 485 (ill.), 547, as Daisies (Marguerites), Paris, 1939 (summer).
Art Institute of Chicago, addendum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1952), now bound into Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, exh. cat., introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), n. pag., as Daisies (1939).
Gaston Diehl, with notices by Agnès Humbert, Henri Matisse (Éditions Pierre Tisné, 1954), pp. 91, 156, as Marguerites et vase grec, 1939.
Raymond Escholier, Henri Matisse: Sein Leben und Schaffen, trans. Maurice Besset, Maurice Besset (Diogenes Verlag, 1958), p. 242 (ill.).
A. James Speyer, “Reports of the Departments: Twentieth Century Art,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1967–1968(Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), p. 23, as The Daisies, 1939.
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), p. 106, cat. 486 (ill.), as Marguerite, 1939. Translated as “Documentation: Catalogue des œuvres,” in Tout l’œuvre peint de Matisse, 1904–1928, ed. Xavier Deryng, Les Classiques de l’Art (Flammarion, 1982), p. 106, cat. 486 (ill.), as Marguerite, 1939.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Matisse: Oeuvres de Henri Matisse (1869–1954), Collections du Musée national d’art moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, 1979), p. 70, as Marguerites, l’été 1939.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Sharing of Art,” A Record of Sharing with Chicago’s Masterpiece: The Art Institute of Chicago, July 1, 1982–June 30, 1983; A Supplement to the 1982–83 Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), p. 25 (ill.), Les Marguerites (The Daisies), 1939.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1982–83, with a report by James Wood and E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), pp. 6, fig. 7; 20; 48, as Les Marguerites (The Daisies), 1939.

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