On View In:
Gallery 359
Artist:   Henri Matisse
Stéphane Mallarmé
Albert Skira & Cie, Lausanne
Léon Pichon , (text)
Roger Lacourière  
Title:   The Fan of Madame Mallarmé, page from Poésies  
Date:   1932  
Medium:   Etching  
Dimensions:   13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm)  
Credit Line:   Gift of Bruce B. Dayton  
Location:   Gallery 359  

This portrait intersects with Mallarmé's poem most closely in the third stanza, which reads: "Which shows you're better suited than A perfume vial-and like a fan- At focussing fragments of the sky."

Artist/Creator(s)     
Name:   Matisse, Henri  
Nationality:   French  
Life Dates:   French, 1869 - 1954  
 
Name:   Mallarmé, Stéphane  
Role:   Author  
Life Dates:   French, 1842-1898  
 
Name:   Skira, Albert  
Role:   Publisher  
 
Name:   Pichon, Léon  
Role:   Printer  
 
Name:   Lacourière, Roger  
Role:   Etcher  
 

Object Description  
  
Inscriptions:    
Classification:   Books  
Physical Description:   page from the book: Poésies  
Creation Place:   Europe, France, , , Paris  
Edition:   Edition of 125; 42/125  
Accession #:   B.81.13.3  
Owner:   The Minneapolis Institute of Arts