Portrait of Léonide Massine

1. Given by the artist to Leonide Massine (1896–1979), Paris, April 1920 [London 1971]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 7, 1971, lot 89, to Douglas Cooper [sale catalogue addendum]. Sold by E.V. Thaw and Company New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, "Collection of Leonide Massine," February 18-March 9, 1935, cat. 18.
• Edinburgh, College of Art, Edinburgh Festival, "The Diaghilev Exhibition," August 22–September 12, 1954, pp. 33, 48 (ill.), cat. 490; travelled to London, Forbes House, Portrait Gallery, November–January 16, 1955, p. 29, cat. 498.
• The University of Chicago, Joseph Regenstein Library, "The Diaghilev Ballet Russes, 1909-1929," June 26-November 15, 1975.
• Chicago, Arts Club, "Sixty Years on the Arts Club Stage: A Souvenir Exhibition of Portraits," November 17, 1975–January 3, 1976, pp. 12 (ill), 43, cat. 58.
• London, Hayward Gallery, "The Sculpture and Drawings of Henri Matisse," October 4, 1984–Janary 6, 1985, pp. 178 (ill.), 264, cat. 58; travelled to New York, Museum of Modern Art, February 27–May 14, 1985.
• Bielefeld, Germany, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, "Picasso Klassizismus: Werke von 1914–1934," April 17–July 31, 1988, pp. 314 (ill.), cat. 16a.
• London, Tate Gallery (organizer), "Matisse Picasso," 2002-2003, p. 183 (ill.), cat. 84; shown in New York, Museum of Modern Art, February 12–May 27, 2003.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "Matisse's Jazz: Rhythms in Color", March 7 - June 1, 2026.

• Richard Buckle, In Search of Diaghilev (New York, 1956), no. 32 (ill.).
• Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass, 1981), p. 243 (ill.), fig. 27.
• John Klein, Matisse Portraits (New Haven, Conn, 2001), p. 136 (ill.), fig. 97.
• “Portrait of Léonide Massine,” 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. 32, <a href="https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor">https://publications.artic.edu/matisse/reader/works/section/24/24_anchor</a>.

Bathers by a River

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman before an Aquarium

Art Institute of Chicago

Interior at Nice

Art Institute of Chicago

Apples

Art Institute of Chicago

Daisies

Art Institute of Chicago

Still Life with Geranium

Art Institute of Chicago

Lemons on a Pewter Plate

Art Institute of Chicago

Laurette with a Cup of Coffee

Art Institute of Chicago

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