{"data":{"id":87045,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/87045","is_boosted":true,"title":"Still Life with Geranium","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBAAFAPQAAGNbTlZmV3ZmW3dtXHp1Xmdzant0aIZsVIJ7bm+GeXSAc3eJfY2DeGh+g3KFjouRjIWXmKqhnpSepamtoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAEAAUAAAURoORAUxMkj1Is0WAgDCAQRwgAOw==","width":8855,"height":11010,"alt_text":"Still life of geranium plant, fruit, water pitcher, and two cats."},"main_reference_number":"1932.1342","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1906,"date_end":1906,"date_display":"1906","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Henri Matisse\nFrench, 1869\u20131954","place_of_origin":"France","description":"<p>Like his artistic hero, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse merged the traditional and the avant-garde. In <em>Still Life with Geranium<\/em>, he transformed a simple still life into a populated Arcadian landscape painting, rendered in the brilliant color, thick paint, and rapid brushwork characteristic of the group of painters known as the Fauves (French for \u201cwild beasts\u201d). Matisse was recognized by critics as the leader of this group.<\/p>\n<p>This composition is one of contrasts\u2014the pale palette and light brushwork in the upper half of the picture are juxtaposed with the darker colored, heavily painted lower half; the firmly planted pose of the female figure is contraposed with the almost-\ufb02eeing figure of the male; and the red vegetables grown near Paris are set near ceramic objects from exotic, faraway places. One of many still-life paintings in which Matisse incorporated his own figurative sculptures, here the artist challenged his viewers\u2019 expectations by rendering his modeled figures with minimal color and simple lines. Probably represented as plaster casts, these figures would later be made in bronze editions by the artist; versions of <em>Woman Leaning on Her Hands<\/em> (on the right of the geranium) and <em>Thorn Extractor<\/em> (on the left) are also in the collection of the Art Institute.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of thirty-five works that comprise the Winterbotham Collection. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/the-winterbotham-collection\">Click here to learn more about the collection.<\/a><\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"100.3 \u00d7 81.5 cm (39 1\/2 \u00d7 32 1\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":81,"height":100,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed lower left: Henri-Matisse","credit_line":"Joseph Winterbotham Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Paul Cassirer,\u00a0X. Jahrgang, 1907\/1908, September\/October: I. Ausstellung\u00a0(Paul Cassirer, 1907), cat. 86, as\u00a0Geranium.\n\n\u201cObzor vystavki \u2018Salon Zolotogo Runa\u2019\u201d: \u201cRevue du \u2018Salon de La Toison d\u2019Or,\u2019\u201d\u00a0Zolotoe runo: Toison d\u2019Or, nos.\u00a07\u20139\u00a0(1908), pp.\u00a032\u00a0(ill.); 62\u00a0(ill. no. IV); 64\u00a0(ill. no. IV\u00a0a), as\u00a0\u0413\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043d\u044c,\u00a0Le\u00a0g\u00e9ranium.\n\nPaul Cassirer,\u00a0V. Ausstellung: Henri Matisse\u00a0(Paul Cassirer, 1909), cat. 18, as\u00a0Stilleben.\n\nBerliner Secession,\u00a0Katalog der XXVI. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, exh.\u00a0cat. (Ausstellungshaus am Kurf\u00fcrstendamm, 1913), p.\u00a040, cat. 201, as\u00a0Geranium.\n\nRoland Schacht,\u00a0Henri Matisse, K\u00fcnstler der Gegenwart 4 (Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, 1922), p.\u00a015.\n\nFogg Art Museum,\u00a0Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh.\u00a0cat., organized by Frederic C. Bartlett et al. (Harvard University, 1929), p.\u00a017, cat.\u00a061; pl.\u00a051, as\u00a0Still\u00a0Life.\n\nAlbert Franz Cochrane, \u201cFogg Museum Stages Magnificent Exhibition of French Art,\u201d\u00a0Boston Evening Transcript, Mar. 9, 1929, p.\u00a013, as \u201cStill Life.\u201d\n\nForbes Watson, \u201cThe Fogg Museum Celebrates, Part 2,\u201dArts\u00a015, no. 5 (May 1929), p.\u00a0[302]\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still-Life.\n\nAlfred Gold,\u00a0French Impressionists, Old Masters: 35 Paintings Selected from Exhibitions at Dr. Alfred Gold\u2019s Gallery\u00a0(Dr. Alfred Gold\u2019s Gallery, 1930), p.\u00a0[35]\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still-life with Flowers, 1907.\n\nAlbert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia,The Art of Henri-Matisse\u00a0(Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons, 1933), pp.\u00a073; 244, no. 30\u00a0(ill.); 434, no. 30, as\u00a0Still-Life with Potted Plant, Collioure.\n\nBaltimore Museum of Art,\u00a0Modern Painting Isms and How They Grew, exhibition brochure (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1940), n.pag., as\u00a0Still Life, Geraniums.\n\nR. H. Wilenski,\u00a0Modern French Painters\u00a0(Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940), p.\u00a0198, as\u00a0Nature morte au pot de fleurs, 1904\u20135.\n\n\u201cLes Fauves Reunited in Provocative New York Exhibition,\u201d\u00a0Art Digest\u00a016, no. 3 (Nov.\u00a01, 1941), p.\u00a09\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life With Geranium,\u00a01906.\n\nLos Angeles County Museum,\u00a0Aspects of French Painting from C\u00e9zanne to Picasso, exh.\u00a0cat. (Los Angeles County Museum, 1941), n.pag., no.\u00a028\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit.\n\nRobert Lebel,\u00a0Les Fauves,\u00a0exh.\u00a0cat. (Marie Harriman Gallery, 1941), cat.\u00a04, as\u00a0Nature Morte au Geranium, circa\u00a01906.\n\nDecatur Art Center,\u00a0Masterpieces of European and American Art Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, exh.\u00a0cat. (Decatur Art Center, 1945), p.\u00a07, cat.\u00a010, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant.\n\nSpringfield Art Association,\u00a0Masterpieces of European and American Art Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, exh.\u00a0cat. (Springfield Art Association, 1945), p.\u00a07, cat.\u00a010, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant.\n\nMilwaukee Art Institute,\u00a0Flower Paintings, exh.\u00a0cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1945), cat.\u00a022, as\u00a0Still Life with Geraniums.\n\n\u201c$100,000 Art Exhibit to Open This Week at Edwards Place: To Display European and American Masterpieces,\u201d\u00a0Illinois State Journal-Register\u00a0(Apr.\u00a01, 1945), p.\u00a06, as \u201cStill Life.\u201d\n\nHarriet M. Cantrall, \u201cArtist Expresses Views on Exhibit at Edwards Place,\u201d\u00a0Illinois State Journal-Register\u00a0(Apr.\u00a08,\u00a01945), p.\u00a024, as \u201cPotted Geranium.\u201d\nMilwaukee Art Institute, \u201cFlower Paintings,\u201d\u00a0Milwaukee Art Institute Bulletin\u00a018, no.\u00a03 (Sept.\u00a01945), p.\u00a02, as\u00a0Geraniums.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0The Winterbotham Collection, exh.\u00a0cat., with an essay by Katherine Kuh (Art Institute of Chicago, 1947), p.\u00a030, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium, 1905.\n\nHenry Clifford and Henri Matisse,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture,\u00a0Organized in Collaboration with the Artist, exh.\u00a0cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1948), pp.\u00a038, cat. 19; n.pag., no. 19\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life\u2013Geranium Plant, Fruit, 1908.\n\nSaginaw Museum,\u00a0Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting at the Saginaw Museum, exh.\u00a0cat. (Saginaw Museum, 1948), p.\u00a09,\u00a0cat. 18, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium.\n\nSidney Janis Gallery,\u00a0Les Fauves, exh.\u00a0cat., essays by Georges Duthuit and Robert Lebel (Sidney Janis Gallery, 1950), cat.\u00a032, as\u00a0Geranium Plant, Fruit, 1908.\n\nAlfred H. Barr, Jr.,\u00a0Matisse: His Art and His Public (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), pp.\u00a092, 110, 558, as\u00a0Still Life with a Potted Plant\u00a0and\u00a0Still Life\u2013Geranium Plant, Fruit,\u00a01906.\n\nMuseum of Modern Art,\u00a0Henri Matisse,\u00a0exh.\u00a0cat., introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), pp.\u00a09, cat. 14; 15\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life\u2013Geranium Plant, Fruit on Table, (1906).\n\nSidney Janis Gallery,\u00a05 Years of Janis:\u00a05th Anniversary Exhibition, exh.\u00a0cat. (Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953), no. 67\u00a0(ill.).\n\nGaston Diehl,\u00a0Henri Matisse\u00a0(\u00c9ditions Pierre Tisn\u00e9, 1954), p.\u00a047, as\u00a0Nature morte au geranium.\n\nJohn Ulbricht,\u00a010 \u00d7 10:\u00a0Ten Directions by Ten Artists, exh.\u00a0cat. (Denver Art Museum, 1954), cat. 37, as\u00a0Still Life, 1906.\n\nArts Club of Chicago,\u00a0Les Fauves, exh.\u00a0cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1956), cat. 12, as\u00a0Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit on the Table, 1906.\n\nThree Exhibitions: Notable Paintings from Midwestern Collections, Notable Collections at Joslyn Art Museum, Anniversary Purchase Exhibition, exh.\u00a0cat., introduction by Eugene Kingman (Joslyn Art Museum, 1956), n.pag., as\u00a0Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit on Table.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection\u00a0(Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, repr., 1968), p.\u00a0304, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906.\n\nEdward Barry, \u201cWonderful World of Art: A Legacy that Grows\u2014Winterbotham Collection,\u201d\u00a0Chicago Tribune (Aug.\u00a025, 1963), sec. 5, p.\u00a04, as\u00a0Still Life.\n\nJean Leymarie, \u201cThe Painting of Matisse,\u201d trans. Caroline Lumley, in UCLA Arts Council and UCLA Art Galleries,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966, exh.\u00a0cat. (University of California Press, 1966), p.\u00a012, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit.\n\nUCLA Arts Council and UCLA Art Galleries, \u201cReproductions of the Paintings\u201d and \u201cCatalogue of the Exhibition: Paintings,\u201d in\u00a0Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966, exh.\u00a0cat. (University of California Press, 1966), pp.\u00a052, no. 23\u00a0(ill.); 184\u201385, cat. 23, as\u00a0Still Life with\u00a0Geranium Plant and Fruit\/Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium, (1906).\n\nJean Guichard-Meili,\u00a0Matisse, trans. Caroline Moorehead, A Praeger World of Art Profile (Frederick A. Praeger, 1967), p.\u00a0231, as\u00a0Still-life with Geranium Plant and Fruit.\n\nMatisse, 1869\u20131954: A Retrospective Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, exh.\u00a0cat. with a foreword by Gabriel White and an introduction by Lawrence Gowing (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1968), pp.\u00a081\u00a0(ill.); 162, cat. 36, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit\/Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium, 1906.\n\nPierre Schneider,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Exposition du Centenaire, exh.\u00a0cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1970), pp.\u00a039; 72\u20133, cat. 83; 156, no. 83\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Nature morte au pelargonium (Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium), 1906.\n\nMassimo Carr\u00e0, \u201cCatalogo delle opera,\u201d in Mario Luzi and Massimo Carr\u00e0,\u00a0L\u2019opera di Matisse: dalla rivolta \u2018fauve\u2019 all\u2019intimismo, 1904\u20131928, Classici dell\u2019Arte 49 (Rizzoli Editore, 1971), pp.\u00a088\u201389, cat. 67\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Natura morta con geranio e frutta, 1906\u201307.\n\nAlbert E. Elsen,\u00a0The Sculpture of Henri Matisse\u00a0(Harry N. Abrams, 1971), pp.\u00a063; 64, pl. 75, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906.\n\nFrancois Daulte, \u201cKatarogu\u00a0[\u30ab\u30bf\u30ed\u30b0]\/Catalogue,\u201din\u00a0Shikisai no sh\u014dri:\u00a0Machisu to yaj\u016bha ten\u00a0[\u8272\u5f69\u306e\u52dd\u5229:\u30de\u30c1\u30b9\u3068\u91ce\u7363\u6d3e\u5c55; Triumph of Color: Matisse and the Fauves Exhibition]\/Exposition Les Fauves, exh.\u00a0cat. ed. Shinichi Segui (Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 1974), cat. 47\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Kudamono to zeraniumu no aru seibutsu\u00a0[\u679c\u7269\u3068\u30bc\u30e9\u30cb\u30a6\u30e0\u306e\u3042\u308b\u9759\u7269]\/Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium et aux fruits, 1906.\n\nDonald E. Gordon,\u00a0Modern Art Exhibitions, 1900\u20131916, vol. 2 (Prestel-Verlag, 1974), pp.\u00a0265, no. 127; 694, no. 201, as\u00a0Le g\u00e9ranium\u00a0and\u00a0Geranium.\n\nTheodore Reff, \u201cMatisse: Meditations on a Statuette and Goldfish,\u201d\u00a0Arts Magazine\u00a051, 3 (Nov.\u00a01976), p.\u00a0115, n. 4, as\u00a0Still Life with a Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906.\n\nLawrence Gowing,\u00a0Matisse\u00a0(Thames & Hudson, 1979), pp.\u00a064, fig. 45; 65; 207, no. 45, as\u00a0Nature morte aux g\u00e9raniums (Still-Life: Geranium Plant on Table), 1906.\u00a0\n\nA. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell,\u00a0Twentieth-Century European Paintings\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp.\u00a014; 54, no. 2F7; microfiche 2, no. F7\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906.\n\nFelix Baumann, et. al., \u201cKatalog,\u201d in\u00a0Henri Matisse, exh.\u00a0cat. (Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich\/St\u00e4dtische Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf, 1982), pp.\u00a0[124\u201325], cat. 21\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium, um 1907.\n\nMargrit Hahnloser-Ingold, \u201cMatisse und seine Sammler,\u201d in Felix Baumann, et. al.,\u00a0Henri Matisse, exh.\u00a0cat. (Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich\/St\u00e4dtische Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf, 1982), p.\u00a045, as\u00a0Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium, 1906.\n\nJack D. Flam, \u201cMatisse and the Fauves,\u201d in\u00a0\u201cPrimitivism\u201d in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, vol. 1, exh.\u00a0cat., ed. William Rubin (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984), pp.\u00a0220\u00a0(ill.), 221, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant, 1906.\u00a0\n\nMichael P.\u00a0Mezzatesta,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Sculptor\/Painter: A Formal Analysis of Selected Works, exh.\u00a0cat. (Kimbell Art Museum, 1984), p.\u00a053, as\u00a0Still Life with Geraniums, 1907.\n\nIsabelle Monod-Fontaine,\u00a0The Sculpture of Henri Matisse (Arts Council of Great Britain\/Thames & Hudson, 1984), pp.\u00a029; 30, fig. 39; 149, no. 39, as\u00a0Pelargonium\u00a0and\u00a0Still-life with Geraniums and Fruit, 1907.\n\n\u201cThe Joseph Winterbotham Collection: Plates,\u201d \u201cChecklist of the Collection, 1921\u201386,\u201d and \u201cSelected References,\u201d in\u00a0The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition, with acknowledgements by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), pp.\u00a026\u00a0(ill.), 58, 63, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906.\n\nCatherine C. Bock, \u201cWoman before an Aquarium\u00a0and\u00a0Woman on a Rose Divan: Matisse in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,\u201d\u00a0Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies\u00a012, no. 2\u00a0The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection\u00a0(1986), pp.\u00a0203; 218, n. 2, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit, 1906.\n\nLyn DelliQuadri, \u201cA Living Tradition: The Winterbothams and Their Legacy,\u201d in\u00a0The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition\u00a0(Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), p.\u00a011.\n\nJack Flam,\u00a0Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869\u20131918 (Cornell University Press, 1986), p.\u00a0178, fig. 168, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant, 1906.\n\nJean Guichard-Meili,\u00a0Matisse\u00a0(Somogy, 1986), p.\u00a0129, as\u00a0Nature morte au pelargonium, 1906-07.\n\nJohn Elderfield,\u00a0Henri Matisse: A Retrospective,\u00a0exh.\u00a0cat. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992), pp.\u00a057; 61; 157, pl. 79, as\u00a0Still Life with a Geranium\/Nature morte au p\u00e9largonium [Le g\u00e9ranium], [Collioure, summer 1906].\n\nCentre Georges Pompidou,\u00a0Henri Matisse\u00a01904\u20131917,\u00a0exh.\u00a0cat. (Le Centre, 1993), p.\u00a051, as\u00a0Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium.\n\nHiroshi Kirihara, \u201c21,\u201d in Judith A. Barter et al.,\u00a0Shikago bijutsukan-ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen\u00a0[100\u00a0Years of Modern Painting: Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition]\/Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh.\u00a0cat. eds. Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, et al. (Asahi Shimbun, 1994), pp.\u00a086\u201387, cat. 21\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Zeraniumu\/The Geranium, 1906.\n\nMargherita Andreotti, \u201cThe Joseph Winterbotham Collection, \u201dArt Institute of Chicago\u00a0Museum Studies\u00a020, no.\u00a02 (1994), pp.\u00a0134, 135\u00a0(ill.), 191, as\u00a0The Geranium (Le G\u00e9ranium), summer 1906.\n\nSophia Shaw Pettus, \u201cChecklist of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1921\u20131994,\u201d\u00a0Art Institute of Chicago\u00a0Museum Studies\u00a020, no.\u00a02 (1994), p.\u00a0184\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0The Geranium,\u00a01906.\n\nFrank Milner,\u00a0Henri Matisse\u00a0(Bison Books Ltd., 1994), p.\u00a053\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit,\u00a01907.\n\nYve-Alain Bois, \u201cOn Matisse: The Blinding: For Leo Steinberg,\u201d trans.\u00a0Greg Sims,\u00a0October\u00a068 (Spring 1994), p.\u00a0114, as\u00a0Still Life with\u00a0Geranium.\n\nNatalia Brodskaya,\u00a0The Fauves: The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg; The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, trans.\u00a0Paul Williams, Tomasz Lasica, and Elizabeth Hinton (Parkstone\/Aurora, 1995), p.\u00a039\u00a0(ill.).\n\nGuy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville,\u00a0Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol.\u00a01 (Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1995), pp.\u00a0418\u201319, cat. 74\u00a0(ill.), as \u201cLe g\u00e9ranium.\u201d\n\nGuy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville,\u00a0Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. 2 (Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1995), pp.\u00a01432, cat. 74; 1459, stock no.\u00a015805; 1466, photo no.\u00a08246, as\u00a0Le\u00a0g\u00e9ranium.\n\nCatherine C. Bock-Weiss,\u00a0Henri Matisse: A Guide to Research, Artist Resource Manuals\u00a01, ed.\u00a0Wolfgang M. Freitag, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1424 (Garland Publishing, 1996), pp.\u00a0430, no.\u00a01350; 681; 689, as\u00a0The Geranium,\u00a0Nature morte au p\u00e9largonium (Still Life with Geranium), and\u00a0Still Life with Geranium (Nature morte au p\u00e9largonium), 1906.\n\nGenevieve Morgan, ed.,\u00a0Matisse: The Artist Speaks (Collins Publishers, 1996), pp.\u00a022\u00a0(ill.); 94, pl.\u00a022, as\u00a0The Geranium,\u00a01906.\n\nJames N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein,\u00a0The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture\u00a0(Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), pp.\u00a08, 16\u00a0(ill.), 159, as\u00a0The Geranium,\u00a01906.\n\nYve-Alain Bois, \u201cPr\u00e9face\/Preface,\u201d in\u00a0Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 de l\u2019oeuvre sculpt\u00e9, ed.\u00a0Claude Duthuit, trans.\u00a0Gregory Sims (C.\u00a0Duthuit, 1997), pp.\u00a017; 22, n. 12; 375; 379, n. 12, as\u00a0Nature morte au p\u00e9largorium\u00a0and\u00a0Still Life with a Geranium,\u00a01906.\n\nPeter Kropmanns, \u201cMatisse und die Molls, seine bedeutendsten deutschen Sammler,\u201d in\u00a0Oskar Moll: Gem\u00e4lde und Aquarelle, exh.\u00a0cat. (Wienand Verlag, 1997), p.\u00a080\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Nature morte au p\u00e9largorium (Le g\u00e9ranium),\u00a01906.\n\nJean-Ren\u00e9 Gaborit with Dimitri Salmon, \u201cLe Tireur\u00a0d\u2019\u00e9pine,\u201d in\u00a0D\u2019apr\u00e8s l\u2019antique, exh.\u00a0cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 2000), p.\u00a0222, fig. 67 a, as\u00a0Nature morte au pelargonium, 1906.\u00a0\n\nFrancesca Bianchi, \u201cMatisse in Germania (1906\u20131914),\u201d\u00a0Ricerche di Storia dell\u2019arte\u00a081 (2003), p.\u00a037, as\u00a0G\u00e9ranium,\u00a01906\u201307.\n\nBurkhard Liesman,\u00a0Die Grosse Inspiration: Deutsche K\u00fcnstler in der Acad\u00e9mie Matisse, vol.\u00a03, exh.\u00a0cat. (Kunst-Museum Ahlen, 2004), p.\u00a016\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Nature morte au p\u00e9largorium (le\u00a0g\u00e9ranium),\u00a01906.\n\n\u201cCatalogue des \u0153uvres,\u201d in\u00a0Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un \u00e9t\u00e9 fauve, exh.\u00a0cat., ed.\u00a0Jos\u00e9phine Matamoros and Dominique Szymusiak (Gallimard, 2005), p.\u00a0235, cat.\u00a0183, as\u00a0Nature morte au p\u00e9largonium, hiver\u00a01906\u201307.\n\nTodd Stuart Cronan, \u201cThe Despair of the Physical: Materialism in George Santayana and Henri Matisse, 1900\u20131950\u201d (Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2005), pp.\u00a0iv, no. 34; 258\u2013260; 300; 364; 418, fig.\u00a05.34, as\u00a0Still Life with a Geranium\u00a0and\u00a0Nature morte aup\u00e9largorium,\u00a01906.\n\nJack Flam, \u201cMatisse \u00e0 Collioure: Evolution du style et datation des tableaux 1905\u20131907,\u201d trans. Jeanne Bouniort, in\u00a0Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un \u00e9t\u00e9 fauve, exh.\u00a0cat., ed.\u00a0Jos\u00e9phine Matamoros and Dominique Szymusiak (Gallimard, 2005), pp.\u00a043\u00a0(ill.); 44, as\u00a0Nature morte au p\u00e9largonium, hiver\u00a01906\u201307.\n\nR\u00e9mi Labrusse and Jacqueline Munck,\u00a0Matisse-Derain: La v\u00e9rit\u00e9 du fauvisme\u00a0(Hazan, 2005), pp.\u00a0101, 282, 295, 312, 323, as\u00a0Nature morte au g\u00e9raniums,\u00a0Le G\u00e9ranium [Nature morte au p\u00e9largonium],\u00a0G\u00e9ranium [Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium],\u00a0Le G\u00e9ranium,\u00a0Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium,\u00a01906.\n\nGill Perry, \u201cPlaying with Paint:\u00a0Pink Onions,\u201d in Dorthe Aagesen et al.,\u00a0Matisse Masterpieces at Statens Museum for Kunst\u00a0(Statens Museum for Kunst, 2005), pp.\u00a094\u201395, fig.\u00a03; 98\u201399, as\u00a0Still Life with a Geranium,\u00a01906.\n\nDorothy Kosinski et al.,\u00a0Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, exh.\u00a0cat. (Baltimore Museum of Art\/Dallas Museum of Art\/Nasher Sculpture Center\/Yale University Press, 2007), pp.\u00a0[vi]\u00a0(ill.); 125; 126\u00a0(ill.); 127; 138; 268, cat. 29; [296], as\u00a0Still Life with a Geranium,\u00a01906.\n\nYve-Alain Bois, \u201cAddress Unknown: The Sculpture of Henri Matisse,\u201d\u00a0Artforum\u00a045 (May 2007), p.\u00a0332\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life with a Geranium,\u00a01906.\n\nCatherine Bock-Weiss,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain\u00a0(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009), p.\u00a0190, n. 4, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium and Fruit,\u00a01906.\n\nMagdalena Dabrowski, \u201cCatalogue: Henri Matisse,\u00a0Woman Leaning on Her Hands,\u201d in Sabine Rewald,\u00a0The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York\/Yale University Press, 2009), p.\u00a085, fig. 46, as\u00a0The Geranium,\u00a01906.\n\nStephanie D\u2019Alessandro,\u00a0The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, with contributions by Ren\u00e9e DeVoe Mertz, exh.\u00a0cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Kimbell Art Museum, 2013), pp.\u00a012, 21\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0The Geranium, fall\u00a01906.\n\nBernhard Echte and Walter Feilchenfeldt, eds.,\u00a0Kunstsalon Paul Cassiere: Die Ausstellungen 1905\u20131908, Quellenstudien zur Kunst 7 (Nimbus, 2013), pp.\u00a0522, 796, as\u00a0Geranium.\n\nBernhard Echte and Walter Feilchenfeldt, eds.,\u00a0Kunstsalon\u00a0Paul Cassiere: Die Ausstellungen 1908\u20131910, Quellenstudien zur Kunst 8 (Nimbus, 2013), pp.\u00a0134\u00a0(ill.), 136 [?], as\u00a0Stilleben mit Geranien, 1906.\n\nStephanie D\u2019Alessandro,\u00a0The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, with contributions by Ren\u00e9e DeVoe Mertz (Art Institute of Chicago\/Yale University Press, 2014), pp.\u00a010, 21\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0The Geranium, fall 1906.\n\n\u201cStill Life with Geranium,\u201d in\u00a0Matisse Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed.\u00a0Stephanie D\u2019Alessandro\u00a0(Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), cat. 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/matisse\/reader\/works\/section\/41\/41_anchor\">https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/matisse\/reader\/works\/section\/41\/41_anchor<\/a>.\n\nIna Ewers-Schultz, Simon Kelly, Simone Klein, Astrid K\u00f6hler, Peter Kropmanns, Ulrike Lorenz, Colin Lemoine, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Jacqueline Munck, Eva-Maria Sch\u00fctz and Christian Weikop, Inspiration Matisse, exh. cat. (Prestel-Verlag, 2019), pp. 118; 119, cat. 71 (color ill.). \n\nDita Amory, Ann Dumas, Isabelle Duvernois, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Vertigo of Color: Matisse Derain and the Origins of Fauvism, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023), 145, cat.64 (color ill.), 184, 188.\n\nRapha\u00ebl Bouvier, ed., et. al., Matisse - Invitation to the Voyage, exh. cat. (Riehen: Fondation Beyeler, 2024), 41, 49 (color ill.), 211, as Nature morte au p\u00e9largonium (Le g\u00e9ranium), Collioure.","exhibition_history":"Berlin, Paul Cassirer,\u00a0X. Jahrgang, 1907\/1908, September\/October: I. Ausstellung, Sept.\u00a030\u2013Oct.\u00a018, 1907, cat.\u00a086, as\u00a0Geranium.\n\nMoscow, Zolotoe runo\/Toison d\u2019Or,\u00a0Salon Zolotogo Runa:\u00a0Salon de La Toison d\u2019Or, Apr.\u00a018\u2013May\u00a024, 1908, no\u00a0cat.\n\nProbably Berlin, Paul Cassirer,\u00a0V. Ausstellung: Henri Matisse, Jan.\u00a01\u201320, 1909, cat.\u00a018, as\u00a0Stilleben.\n\nBerlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kurf\u00fcrstendamm,\u00a026. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Spring 1913, cat.\u00a0201, as\u00a0Geranium.\n\nCambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,\u00a0Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Mar.\u00a06\u2013Apr.\u00a06, 1929, cat.\u00a061, pl.\u00a051, as\u00a0Still Life.\n\nCleveland Museum of Art,\u00a0Autumn Flower Show: The Flower in Art, Nov.\u00a01\u2013Dec.\u00a01, 1935, no\u00a0cat.\n\nCleveland Museum of Art,\u00a0Exhibition of\u00a0Paintings by Matisse, Nov.\u00a010\u2013Dec.\u00a018, 1938, no\u00a0cat.\n\nBaltimore Museum of Art,\u00a0Modern Painting Isms and How They Grew, Jan.\u00a012\u2013Feb.\u00a011, 1940, no\u00a0cat.\u00a0no., as\u00a0Still Life, Geraniums.\n\nLos Angeles County Museum,\u00a0Aspects of French Painting from C\u00e9zanne to Picasso, Jan.\u00a015\u2013Mar.\u00a02, 1941, no.\u00a028\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit.\n\nNew York, Marie Harriman Gallery,\u00a0Les Fauves, Oct.\u00a020\u2013Nov.\u00a022, 1941, cat. 4, as\u00a0Nature Morte au Geranium, circa\u00a01906.\nDecatur [IL] Art Center,\u00a0Masterpieces of European and American Art Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar.\u00a04\u201325, 1945, cat.\u00a010, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant; Springfield,\u00a0IL, Art Association, Apr.\u00a04\u201330, 1945, cat.\u00a010, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium\u00a0Plant.\n\nMilwaukee Art Institute,\u00a0Flower Paintings,\u00a0Sept.\u00a06\u2013Oct.\u00a02, 1945, cat.\u00a022, as\u00a0Still Life with\u00a0Geraniums.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0The Winterbotham Collection, May 23\u2013June 22, 1947, as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium,\u00a01905.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Apr.\u00a03\u2013May 10, 1948, cat.\u00a019\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life\u2013Geranium Plant, Fruit,\u00a01908.\n\nSaginaw [Mich.] Museum,\u00a0Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting at the Saginaw Museum, Dec.\u00a019, 1948\u2013Jan.\u00a09, 1949, cat.\u00a018, as\u00a0Still Life with\u00a0Geranium.\n\nDallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas State Fair,\u00a0The Winterbotham Collection of Twentieth Century European Paintings, Oct.\u00a08\u2013Nov.\u00a06, 1949, no\u00a0cat.\n\nNew York, Sidney Janis Gallery,\u00a0Les Fauves, Nov.\u00a013\u2013Dec.\u00a023, 1950, cat. 32, as\u00a0Geranium Plant, Fruit,\u00a01908.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art,\u00a0Henri Matisse, Nov.\u00a013, 1951\u2013Jan.\u00a013, 1952, cat. 14\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life\u2013Geranium Plant, Fruit on Table, (1906); Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb.\u00a05\u2013Mar.\u00a016, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr.\u00a01\u2013May 4, 1952; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May\u00a022\u2013July\u00a06,\u00a01952.\n\nDenver Art Museum, Schleier Gallery,\u00a010\u00a0\u00d7 10:\u00a0Ten Directions by Ten Artists, Jan.\u00a07\u2013Feb.\u00a014, 1954, cat.\u00a037, as\u00a0Still Life,\u00a01906.\n\nArts Club of Chicago,\u00a0Les Fauves, Jan.\u00a010\u2013Feb.\u00a015, 1956, cat. 12, as\u00a0Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit on the Table,\u00a01906.\n\nOmaha, NE, Joslyn Art Museum,\u00a0Notable Paintings from Midwestern Collections, Nov.\u00a030, 1956\u2013Jan.\u00a02, 1957, no\u00a0cat.\u00a0no., as\u00a0Still Life: Geranium Plant, Fruit on\u00a0Table.\n\nLos Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries,\u00a0Henri Matisse Retrospective 1966, Jan.\u00a05\u2013Feb.\u00a027, 1966, cat.\u00a023\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit\/Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium, (1906); Art Institute of Chicago, Mar.\u00a011\u2013Apr.\u00a024, 1966; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11\u2013June 26,\u00a01966.\n\nLondon, Hayward Gallery,\u00a0Matisse, 1869\u20131954: A Retrospective Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, July 11\u2013Sept.\u00a08, 1968, cat.\u00a036\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Still Life with Geranium Plant and Fruit,\u00a01906.\n\nParis, Grand Palais,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Exposition du centenaire, Apr.\u00a021\u2013Sept.\u00a021, 1970, cat.\u00a083\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Nature morte au pelargonium (Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium), 1906.\n\nTokyo, Seibu Museum of Art,\u00a0Shikisai no sh\u014dri:\u00a0Machisu to yaj\u016bha ten\u00a0[Triumph of Color: Matisse and the Fauves Exhibition]\/Exposition: Les Fauves, Aug.\u00a015\u2013Sept.\u00a025, 1974, cat. 47\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Nature morte au geranium et aux fruits, 1906; Osaka, Galeries Seibu Takatsuki, Nov.\u00a015\u2013Dec.\u00a08, 1974, cat.\u00a047\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Kudamono to zeraniumu no aru seibutsu\u00a0[\u679c\u7269\u3068\u30bc\u30e9\u30cb\u30a6\u30e0\u306e\u3042\u308b\u9759\u7269]\/Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium et aux fruits, 1906; Fukuoka, Prefectural Culture Center, Nov.\u00a05\u201330,\u00a01974.\n\nZurich, Kunsthaus,\u00a0Henri Matisse, Oct.\u00a015, 1982\u2013Jan.\u00a016, 1983, cat. 21\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Nature morte au g\u00e9ranium, um 1907; D\u00fcsseldorf, St\u00e4dtische Kunsthalle, Jan.\u00a029\u2013Apr.\u00a04,\u00a01983.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art,\u00a0Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, Sept.\u00a024,\u00a01992\u2013Jan.\u00a012, 1993, pl.\u00a079, as\u00a0Still Life with a Geranium\/Nature morte au p\u00e9largonium [Le g\u00e9ranium], [Collioure, summer\u00a01906].\n\nNagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art,\u00a0Shikago Bijutsukan-ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen\u00a0[100\u00a0Years of Modern Painting: Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition]\/Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr.\u00a020\u2013May 29, 1994, cat. 21\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Zeraniumu\u00a0[The Geranium, 1906]; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10\u2013July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug.\u00a06\u2013Sept.\u00a025,\u00a01994.\n\nDallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center,\u00a0Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, Jan.\u00a021\u2013Apr.\u00a029, 2007, cat.\u00a029 (ills.), as\u00a0Still Life with a Geranium, 1906; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9\u2013Sept.\u00a016, 2007; Baltimore Museum of Art, Oct.\u00a028, 2007\u2013Feb.\u00a03,\u00a02008.\n\nFort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum,\u00a0The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct.\u00a06, 2013\u2013Feb.\u00a016, 2014, no\u00a0cat.\u00a0no.\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0The Geranium, Fall 1906.\n\nMannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Inspiration Matisse, Sep. 27, 2019\u2013Jan. 19, 2020, cat. 71, as Le G\u00e9ranium.\n\nNew York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vertigo of Color: Matisse Derain and the Origins of Fauvism, Oct. 11, 2023\u2013Jan. 21, 2024, cat. 64; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb. 25, 2024\u2013May 27, 2024.\n\nRiehen, Switzerland, Fondation Beyeler, Matisse - Invitation to the Voyage, Sept. 22, 2024-Jan. 26, 2025, no cat. no.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Matisse\u2019s Jazz: Rhythms in Color, Mar. 7\u2013June 1, 2026, no cat.","provenance_text":"The artist; sold to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Mar. 1, 1907; 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