Lot 353
  • 353

Henri Matisse

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Description

  • Henri Matisse
  • JAGUAR DÉVORANT UN LIÉVRE, D'APRÈS BARYE
  • inscribed HM, numbered 8 and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue

  • bronze
  • length: 56.5cm., 22.2in.

Provenance

Galerie Samlaren, Agnes Widlund, Stockholm (1954)
Acquired by the family of the present owner in the 1950s

Literature

Alfred H. Barr, Matisse, His Art and his Public, New York, 1951, illustration of another cast p. 303
Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1971, no. 18, illustration of another cast p. 19
Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse, A Novel, London, 1972, no. 39, illustration of another cast p. 81
Pierre Schneider, Matisse, London, 1984, illustration of another cast p. 542
John Elderfield, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, New York, 1992, illustration of the cast in Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris p. 85
Claude Duthuit, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 4, illustrations of another cast p. 7