Signed, upper left: Henri Matisse
Inscribed, on back of canvas: H. Matisse, Issy (Seine) Inscribed, on stretcher: Interior (Les Myosotis) 1916
Oil on canvas
City of Detroit Purchase
22.14
European Modern Art to 1970
Signed, upper left: Henri Matisse
Inscribed, on back of canvas: H. Matisse, Issy (Seine) Inscribed, on stretcher: Interior (Les Myosotis) 1916
Dirkan G. Kelekian
January 30, 1922, sale, American Art Association, no. 160 (New York, New York, USA)
1922-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Henri Matisse, The Window, 1916, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 22.14.