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Henri Matisse
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Description
- Henri Matisse
- Themes et variations: variation 7, series i (buste de femme)
- Signed, inscribed and dated I7 Henri Matisse 42 (lower right)
- Pen and India ink on paper
- 16 by 20 3/4 in. (40.6 by 52.7cm)
Provenance
Martin Fabiani, Paris (publisher of Thèmes et variations)
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired in Paris in the late 1940s, sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 4, 1993, lot 317A)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Catalogue Note
According to Louis Aragon, the model for the I series of drawings was Nezy, a Turkish princess and the great-granddaughter of Prince Abdul-Hamid, who modelled for Matisse in the early 1940s.