Henri Matisse
Jeannette I1910

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Bronze sculptural head with dark brown patina and glossy surface, loosely modeled facial features, hair swept upward, mounted on a square stone pedestal

Five dark patinated bronze busts arranged in a row against a golden background; the leftmost is a head only on a stone pedestal, while the remaining four are progressively more developed busts with shoulders, all depicting a woman with upswept hair and stylized facial features rendered in rough, modeled surfaces.

Two dark patinated bronze head sculptures on square stone plinths, each depicting a face with upswept hair and roughly modeled surface texture; the right figure is taller and faces slightly upward.

Artist or Maker: Henri Matisse
France, 1869-1954
Title: Jeannette I
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1910
Medium: Bronze, cast number 4/10
Dimensions: 12 7/8 × 11 × 11 in. (32.7 × 27.94 × 27.94 cm) With Base: 19 7/8 in. (50.48 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Art Museum Council in memory of Penelope Rigby
Accession Number: 68.3.1
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Although Jeannette I–V were not created in a series, together the five heads provide an extraordinary illustration of the arc of modern sculpture from the late nineteenth into the twentieth century. Henri Matisse created Jeannette I and II directly from the model, Jeanne Vaderin. The two sculptures served as the basis for the subsequent three bronzes, which are increasingly androgynous and abstract; the base is integrated into a volumetric whole, emphasizing the process of creation, the materiality of the object, and the expressive properties of clay and bronze. LACMA’s full set is one of only four in a public collection.

Wall label, 2021.
Selected Bibliography: Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
Mezzatesta, Michael P. Henri Matisse, Sculptor/Painter: a Formal Analysis of Selected Works. Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 1984
Müller-Tamm, Pia, ed. Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005.
Copyright: © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Henri Matisse
Jeannette I1910

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Henri Matisse
France, 1869-1954
Title: Jeannette I
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1910
Medium: Bronze, cast number 4/10
Dimensions: 12 7/8 × 11 × 11 in. (32.7 × 27.94 × 27.94 cm) With Base: 19 7/8 in. (50.48 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Art Museum Council in memory of Penelope Rigby
Accession Number: 68.3.1
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Although Jeannette I–V were not created in a series, together the five heads provide an extraordinary illustration of the arc of modern sculpture from the late nineteenth into the twentieth century. Henri Matisse created Jeannette I and II directly from the model, Jeanne Vaderin. The two sculptures served as the basis for the subsequent three bronzes, which are increasingly androgynous and abstract; the base is integrated into a volumetric whole, emphasizing the process of creation, the materiality of the object, and the expressive properties of clay and bronze. LACMA’s full set is one of only four in a public collection.

Wall label, 2021.
Selected Bibliography: Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
Mezzatesta, Michael P. Henri Matisse, Sculptor/Painter: a Formal Analysis of Selected Works. Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 1984
Müller-Tamm, Pia, ed. Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005.