Jun 24, 2022

Henri Matisse The Blue Window

Henri Matisse
The Blue Window
Issy-les-Moulineaux, summer 1913
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Credit
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Object number
273.1939
 https://web.archive.org/web/20150805185104/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79350


EK no. 3688: Stillleben, blaues Zimmer. One of 139 paintings removed from the Folkwang Essen in July and August 1937 (exh. cat. Folkwang 2010, p. 348). [4] Included in the exhibition Art in Our Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 10- September 30, 1939 (no. 93).





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Provenance MOMA: (August 5, 2015)

The artist, Paris; acquired by Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874-1921) for the Folkwang Museum, Hagen, Germany, 1913 [1]; Estate of Karl Ernst Osthaus, Hagen, 1921-1922; acquisition of Osthaus' Hagen Collection by the Folkwang Museum Association, Essen, 1922 [2]; removed as "degenerate art" by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, 1937 [3]; on consignment to Karl Buchholz, Berlin; to Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, April 13, 1939 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund) [4]. 
[1] Laurie Stein, "The History and Reception of Matisse's Bathers with a Turtle in Germany, 1908-1939," Henri Matisse. Bathers with TurtleThe Saint Louis Art Museum Bulletin (Fall 1998), p. 54. The painting was shipped from Paris on November 27, 1913. It arrived in Hagen at the end of December (letter Karl Ernst Osthaus to Henri Matisse, December 30, 1913, KEO-Archive, NACI 184/1-2). 
[2] Ulrike Laufer, "Transfer der Folkwang-Sammlungen nach Essen," 'Das schönste Museum der Welt,' Sammlung Folkwang bis 1933, Hartwig Fischer, ed., exh. cat. Essen: Folkwang Museum, 2010, pp. 179-190. 
[3] EK no. 3688: Stillleben, blaues Zimmer. One of 139 paintings removed from the Folkwang Essen in July and August 1937 (exh. cat. Folkwang 2010, p. 348). [4] Included in the exhibition Art in Our Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 10- September 30, 1939 (no. 93).


Provenance Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entartete Kunst", "Degenerate Art" Research Center, FU Berlin (June 24, 2022)

1922 - 25.08.1937: Essen, Museum Folkwang

Kauf mit der Sammlung Osthaus

25.08.1937 - 29.11.1941: Deutsches Reich / Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin

Beschlagnahme, Verkauf

Note: Per „Gesetz über Einziehung von Produkten entarteter Kunst“ vom 31.05.1938 entschädigungslose Einziehung zugunsten des Deutschen Reiches

Sources

08.1938 - 03.06.1939: Berlin, Depot Schloß Schönhausen

Lagerung "international verwertbarer" Kunstwerke

Sources

03.06.1939 - 1939: Berlin, Buch- und Kunsthandlung Karl Buchholz

03.06.1939 in Kommission; Kauf am 29.11.1941, $ 1.000

Sources

1939 - 1939: New York, Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin

Übernahme, Verkauf

1939: New York, Museum of Modern Art

Kauf aus Mitteln der Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Stiftung



Provenance MOMA June 24 2022

The artist, Paris

1913 Karl Ernst Osthaus for the Folkwang Museum Hagen, Germany

1922 Folkwang Museum, Essen

1937 removed as "degenerate art" (by Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), 1937

1938 legally seized by the German Reich under the Law on the Confiscation of Products of Degenerate Art of May 31, 1938 (Gesetz über die Einziehung von Erzeugnissen entarteter Kunst), RGBl. 1938 I, p. 612 

1939 on consignment to art dealer Karl Buchholz, Berlin

Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York 

April 13, 1939 The Museum of Modern Art (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund)

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One observes differences in the dimensions and creation dates in the information provided by the MoMa and by the "Degenerate Art" Research Center, FU Berlin for the Matisse painting. However the MoMa's records show that the painting was clearly identified as the looted work EK no. 3688: Stillleben, blaues Zimmer.  

https://web.archive.org/web/20150805185104/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79350


For more artworks seized by Nazis during their anti modern art campaign, see Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entartete Kunst", "Degenerate Art" Research Center, FU Berlin

http://emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de/eMuseumPlus?service=RedirectService&sp=Scollection&sp=SfieldValue&sp=0&sp=0&sp=3&sp=SdetailList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=2&sp=F

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