ID: 700009514 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009514	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Pianist and Checker Players (painting (visual work); Henri Matisse (French, 1869 - 1954); 1924; National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States); 1985.64.25)

Note: Through the 1920s, Matisse stayed in Nice from late fall to early spring of each year, while his wife and family remained in Issy-les-Moulineaux outside Paris. Pianist and Checker Players is set in Matisse's Nice apartment and shows the artist's favorite model, Henriette Darricarère, and her two brothers. The painting can be seen as a surrogate family portrait, with Henriette standing in for Matisse's daughter, and the two boys representing his sons. But regardless of the relationship between the artist and his subjects, this is distinctly Matisse's world: near the empty armchair at the center of the painting where the artist might sit, his violins hang from the armoire and his drawings and paintings are tacked to the wall.

Titles:

Pianist and Checker Players (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,P)

Pianiste et joueurs de dames (C,U,French,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1924

Creator Display:

Henri Matisse (French, 1869 - 1954) [preferred]

painter Matisse, Henri (French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1869-1954) [500017300]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States) [500115983] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1985.64.25

Credit Line: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Address Note: not on view

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: overall: 73.7 x 92.4 cm (29 x 36 3/8 in.); framed: 96.5 x 115.2 x 6.6 cm (38 x 45 3/8 x 2 5/8 in.)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

portraits

Specific Subjects:

	pianist [300235018]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the performing arts>, musicians, instrumentalists, keyboard instrumentalists) (AAT)

	Henriette Darricarère (French artists' model, 20th century) [500475902]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	checkers players [300417991]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by activity>, game players) (AAT)

	checkers (board games) [300266779]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <public and interactive activities>, games, board games (activities)) (AAT)

	Term Not Found
	..... AAT Candidate

Provenance: Sold 21 October 1924 by the artist to (Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); by whom sold 24 October 1924 to Georges Bernheim, Paris;[1] sold to Paul Rosenberg, Paris;[2] sold to (Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York); sold 1951 to (Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York); Alexandre Rosenberg, New York; sold c. 1977 to (Eugene Victor Thaw and Co., New York); sold January 1978 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA. See https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66423.html#provenance (accessed 23 July 2018): This painting was confiscated by the ERR with others from the Rosenberg collection in France in 1941 (ERR Inventory card UNB335, National Archives RG 260/Property Division/Box 22). It was selected by Hermann Goering from the Jeu de Paume, one of the six untitled paintings by Matisse from the Rosenberg collection listed as numbers 48-53 on the Nachtrag zur Liste v. 20.10.42 der für die Sammlung des Reichsmarschalls Hermann Göring abgegebenen Kunstgegenstände dated 9 April 1943 (OSS Consolidated Interrogation Report #2, The Goering Collection, Attachment 5, National Archives RG239/Entry73/Box 78) and traded 10 December 1941 to Gustav Rochlitz, in whose possession it remained until the end of the war. It was recovered in one of Rochlitz' residences in Bavaria and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, and restituted to France on 27 March 1946 (OSS Detailed Interrogation Report #4, Gustav Rochlitz, National Archives RG239/Entry 74/Box 84 and Munich property card #8049/15; French Receipt for Cultural Objects no. 5A, item no. 298; copies in NGA curatorial files). It was returned to Paul Rosenberg on 17 May 1946 (See letter from the Ministere des Affiares Etrangeres dated 20 February 2001 in NGA curatorial files). After its restitution, the painting was exhibited in the 1946 Les Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections privées françaises retrouvés en Allemagne par la Commission de Récupération artistique et les Services alliés, no. 53.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Pianist and Checker Players	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-) accessed 22 July 2018
Pianiste et joueurs de dames	........ [VP]
	........ Musée Matisse [online] (2000-) accessed 22 July 2018

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-) https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66423.html

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-) accessed 22 July 2018, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66423.html