Jeannette (V)

Henri Matisse · Issy-les-Moulineaux, summer 1916

Jeannette, the fifth and last, from nineteen sixteen — six years after the first. One eye is a smooth swelling, the other a socket; the face is gouged down to almost nothing. Nobody would recognise Jeanne Vaderin here, and that was the point of taking five goes at it.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 22 7/8 x 8 3/8 x 10 5/8" (58.1 x 21.3 x 27.1 cm) · Credit Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 506: Jeannette (IV)

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

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