Jeannette (IV)

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

The fourth. The features are now blocks and hollows, arranged for balance rather than resemblance — a head assembled from the idea of a head. If you have come along the row in order you have watched a portrait turn into architecture.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 24 1/8 x 10 3/4 x 11 1/4" (61.3 x 27.4 x 28.7 cm) · Credit Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 506: Jeannette (III), Jeannette (V)

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

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