Still Life with Geranium

1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• 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.

• 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.

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