Henri Matisse

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Description

Henri Matisse
NU
signed Henri Matisse (lower right)
brush and ink on paper
21.5 by 26.5cm., 8 1/2 by 10 3/8 in.

Provenance

The Earl of Sandwich, Huntington (acquired in France circa 1930-40)
Thence by descent to the previous owner

Catalogue Note

This work is a study for the central figure of Matisse's famous work of the same date Le bonheur de vivre now in the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania (see: Little, Brown and Company (ed.), Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, London, 1993, p. 227).