Henri Matisse
Tea1919

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Oil painting of two pale-skinned women seated in mint-green garden chairs at a cloth-draped table, with a large dog resting on the ground, surrounded by dense green foliage and tree trunks

Artist or Maker: Henri Matisse
France, 1869-1954
Title: Tea
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1919
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 55 1/4 × 83 3/16 in. (140.34 × 211.3 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of David L. Loew in memory of his father, Marcus Loew
Accession Number: M.74.52.2
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: The artist (1869-1954), Paris; [sold on consignment in 1920 to; Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, between May 18-July 30, 1920]; [sold in 1920 to Paul Ebstein, Paris ] ; sold in 1925 to Michael (1865-1938) and Sarah (1870-1953) Stein, Paris and Palo Alto, CA; [sold in 1951 to Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles]; sold in 1954 to David L. Loew (1897-1973), Beverly Hills; bequeathed in 1974 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Lamberti, Maria Mimita. Lionello Venturi e la Pittura a Torino. Torino: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio de Torino, 2000.
Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
Price, Lorna. Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Groom, Gloria. Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930. Chicago; New Haven: The Art Institute of Chicago; Yale University Press, 2001.
Klein, John. Matisse Portraits. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
Matisse 1869-1954: a Retrospective Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1968.
Schneider, Pierre, Massimo Carrà, and Xavier Deryng. Tout l'œuvre peint de Matisse, 1904-1928. Paris: Flammarion, 1982.
Matisse et Marguerite: Le Regard d'un Père. Paris: Paris Museés, 2025.

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