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Henri Matisse
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Description
- Henri Matisse
- PORTRAIT DE FEMME
- Signed and dated Henri Matisse 7/42 and dated and dedicated Au Professeur Pierre Wertheimer avec mes sentiments de reconnaissance et d'amitié 6/44 (lower right)
- Charcoal on paper
- 20 7/8 by 16 1/8 in.
- 53 by 41cm
Provenance
Pierre Wertheimer, Lyon (a gift from the artist in June 1944)
By descent to the present owner
By descent to the present owner
Literature
Cahiers d'Art, 1945-46, Paris, p. 165
Maurice Malingue, Matisse: Dessins, Paris, 1949, illustrated pl. 35
Lydia Delectorskaya, Henri Matisse. Contre vents et marées, Peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943, Paris, 1996, illustrated p. 355
Maurice Malingue, Matisse: Dessins, Paris, 1949, illustrated pl. 35
Lydia Delectorskaya, Henri Matisse. Contre vents et marées, Peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943, Paris, 1996, illustrated p. 355
Catalogue Note
The present work is executed in charcoal and estompe, a technique which Matisse began using in the early 1920s and applied primarily to his portraiture. In his article Notes d’un peintre sur son dessin, published in 1939, Matisse described the advantages of this medium which allowed him “to consider simultaneously the character of the model, the human expression, the quality of surrounding light, atmosphere and all that can only be expressed by drawing”. (John Elderfield, The drawings of Matisse, London, 1984, p. 84)