The
Pierre
and
Maria-GaetanaMatisse
The Pierre and Maria-GaetanaMatisse Foundation'sgift
Collection
After World War II PierreMatisse began to represent
representsone of the largestadditions to the Metropolitan's collectionof modernart.It greatlystrengthensthe Museum's
younger artists: the English sculptors Reg Butler and
of Henri Matisse,and it enhancesour holdings representation
Manuel Rivera,and Antonio Saura;the Americanpainter
of Surrealistworks with paintings by Leonora Carrington,
JoanMitchell,and her Canadianhusband,Jean-PaulRiopelle;
Wifredo Lam, and Rene Magritte, three artists not previ-
and in Paris and New York, Pierre continued to support the AmericanpainterLoren Maclver.
ously representedin the MetropolitanMuseum. PierreMatisse'spersonalcollection was handsomelydis-
Raymond Mason; the Spanishartists Manolo Millares,
Pierreand Maria-GaetanaMatisse startedto makegifts to
played in changinginstallationsin his townhouseon East
the Museum in I984. These includeda drawingby Matisse,a
64th Street.His favoritemodern artists wereBalthus,Derain,
paintingby Mir6, and nine by Maclver.Only the paintingby
Dubuffet, Giacometti,Mir6, and Tanguy,and with each he
Miro and one by Maclverarereproducedhere (pp. 15,42).
developeddifferentand lasting friendships.In addition, by
The selections illustratedin this Bulletinare arrangedin
inheritance,he receivedworks by his father.Nearly sixty of
three sections: works done between 1911 and
these havebeen given to the Metropolitan.They date from
Henri Matisse; and paintings and sculpture after 1943.
I904, when Henri Matisse was thirty-five,to 1952,when he
For much information about Pierre and Tana and their
was eighty-three, and include five bronzes, four paintings,
Foundation'sgifts and for her valuableand graciousassis-
fourteen drawings,a painted plate, a largepaper cutout, and
tance,I would like to thank AlessandraCarnielli,executive
twenty-nineprints.
directorof the Foundation.
1942;
works by
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