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: Müller-Tamm, Pia, ed. Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005.