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Property from a Private Collection

Henri Matisse

Portrait de femme

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954


Portrait de femme

signed Henri Matisse and dated 2/44 (lower right)

pen and ink on paper

20½ by 15¾ in.

52 by 40 cm.

Executed in Nice in February 1944. 


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Madame Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse.

Private Collection, New York
Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris
Boris Leavitt, New York (acquired from the above in 1973)
Christie's, New York, 14 November 1996, lot 274 (consigned by the above)
Landau Fine Arts, Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal (acquired from the above in 1998)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Tristian Tzara, La Signe de la vie, Paris 1946, p. 17, illustrated