Installation view of Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic showing Red Disc,1947 and Orange Under Table, ca. 1949. copyright 2014 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo by Kathy Tarantola/PEM.
HENRI MATISSE (French, 1869–1954)
The Sheaf (La Gerbe), 1953
Maquette for ceramic (realized 1953)
Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, mounted on canvas
115 1/2 × 138 × 1 1/4″ (293.4 × 350.5 × 3.2 cm)
Collection University of California, Los Angeles. Hammer Museum.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Brody
