Jeannette (III)

Henri Matisse · Issy-les-Moulineaux, April - September 1910 or February - mid-July 1911

The third Jeannette. Here the hair breaks away from the head and becomes its own mass, and the nose lengthens past anything anatomy would allow. This is the point in the sequence where the sitter stops being the subject and the sculpture starts being it.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 23 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 11" (60.3 x 26 x 28 cm) · Credit Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 506: Jeannette (II), Jeannette (IV)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: A Happy New Year, The Devil with Claws, Sleeping Figure, The Horse, Retrospective Bust of a Woman, Caryatid

More by Henri Matisse here: The Back (I), The Back (II), The Back (III), The Back (IV), Tiari, Dance (I)