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Consists of correspondence with artists, clients, museum staff members, and colleagues; records of gallery stock, purchases, sales, works of art accepted on consignment; select exhibition installation records; bank and auditors' records; shipping records; and business records. Also contains photographs of works of art which were handled by, or of interest to, the gallery, as well as photos of artists and studios. The gallery archives, which spans nearly nine decades, documents the opening of the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y., the arrival of European artists in the U.S. to escape the Nazi purge, the effect of Surrealism, and the abstract-expressionist movement in N.Y. among other topics. Some of the artists represented through letters, biographical information, publicity, and commissions include: Balthus, Butler, Calder, Calliyannis, Carrington, Chagall, Dubuffet, Gabo, Giacometti, Gromaire, Le Corbusier, Miro, Riopelle, Saura, Severini, Tanguy, and Zao Wou-ki. The collection, too, contains a large quantity (833 items) of manuscript letters between Henri Matisse and his son Pierre Matisse.
"In a career spanning over six decades, the New York art dealer Pierre Matisse (1900-1989) contributed substantially to the advancement of modern art. At his eponymous gallery on East Fifty-seventh Street, he showed several now legendary artists for the first time outside Europe. The collection--paintings, sculpture, and drawings by Balthus, Bonnard, Chagall, Derain, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Magritte, and the dealer's own father, Henri Matisse, among others--was donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004 by the foundation established by his widow. These extraordinary artworks are presented with informative entries addressing the circumstances of each work's creation and the dealer's relationship to the artist. In the introduction, the story of Pierre Matisse's early struggles in New York is told for the first time and illustrated with previously unpublished archival photographs."--Provided by publisher.
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