Branche de lierre
1915
on displayHenri Matisse1869 Le Cateau-Cambrésis – 1954 Nizza
We have 16 artworks by Henri Matisse online.
We have 1824 paintings online.
We have 1824 paintings online.
Matisse prepared the composition of the ivy branch in the Spanish glass water jug in a large drawing (see Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville: Matisse. Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 1995, no. 163).
In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.
Also known as
Efeuzweig
Branch of Ivy
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 62 x 50.5 cm
Inventory number
2005/0030
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Bequest of Gustav Zumsteg, 2005
Signature
inscr. b. l.: Henri Matisse
Inscriptions
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Catalogue raisonné
Blondel/Ivanoff Matisse.239.16-021
Accession year
2005
Provenance
- Henri Matisse (*1869 Le Cateau-Cambrésis, +1954 Nizza) (Künstler/-in)
- [Verbleib unbekannt?]
- spätestens ab 1916 – 18.10.1940, Alphonse Kann (*1870 Wien, +1948 London) (Sammler/-in)Matisse. Radical invention 1913-1917, hrsg. von Stephanie D'Alessandro, Ausst.-Kat. Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2010, S. 263: Brief Matisse an Léonce Rosenberg 01.06.1916, Alfred Barr hat 1951 den Adressaten mit Purrmann verwechselt. Korrektur im Katalog «Matisse. Radical Invention 1913-1917» (Chicago/New York 2010), S. 263.
- 18.10.1940 – o.D., Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), Saint-Germain-en-Laye, BeschlagnahmeCultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume, https://www.errproject.org/jeudepaume/card_view.php?CardId=1547 [Zugriff: 13.01.2022]: RG 260 M1943 Reel 10 NARA; Bundesarchiv, B323/273; RA 3, RA 618, RV 103, MAEE, Paris, France.
- Verbleib unbekannt
- 7.1947 – 1948, Alphonse Kann (*1870 Wien, +1948 London) (Sammler/-in), RestitutionWie oben Fussnote 4.
- Verbleib unbekannt
- spätestens ab 1982 – 2005, Gustav Zumsteg (*1915 Zürich, +2005 Zürich) (Sammler/-in)
- ab 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Vermächtnis
Provenance category
looted art
Provenance category (FOC)
A – The provenance for the period from 1933 to 1945 can be reconstructed. This is not a case of Nazi-looted art.
Literature (provenance)
- Matisse. Radical invention 1913-1917, hrsg. von Stephanie D'Alessandro, Ausst.-Kat. Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2010., S. 263.
About the provenance
The painting by Henri Matisse entered the Kunsthaus Zürich in 2005 as part of a bequest by the collector Gustav Zumsteg. Prior to that, it had spent many years in the collection of Alphonse Kann (1870–1948). Born in Vienna into a Jewish banking family, Kann grew up in Paris and became friendly with artists such as Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier and Édouard Vuillard during his schooldays. Kann moved in artistic and art-collecting circles and began accumulating a collection of his own. He also supported a buyers’ collective initiated in 1935 by the art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884–1979) to provide financial support to artists.
The Matisse painting is documented as being in Kann’s possession by 1916 at the latest. He presumably acquired it directly from the artist. Kann abandoned his residence in Paris in 1938 in response to rising antisemitism and fled to London, where he obtained British citizenship. The work was seized in October 1940 by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce, an organization set up by the Nazi party to loot cultural property. It was recovered after the Second World War ended, and returned to Alphonse Kann in July 1947.
State of research 13.01.2022
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Literature (general)
- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 598.
- Henri Matisse, hrsg. von Felix Baumann, Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich/Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Zürich, 1982, No. 44 (ill.).
- Ryser, Sibylle/Zürcher, Isabel: Pays de rêve, die Kunst der Kronnenhalle Zürich, München: Prestel, 2019, S. 31.
- François Blondel/Hélène Ivanoff: Catalogue de l’œuvre peint de Henri Matisse. 1869-1954, Prévessin-Moëns: Visimuz, 2025, No. 16.021, S. 239 (ill.).
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