Lot 356
  • 356

Henri Matisse

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Description

  • Henri Matisse
  • PETITE TÊTE AU NEZ CAMUS
  • Inscribed with the initals HM, numbered 4 and stamped with the foundry mark C VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE
  • Bronze, brown patina
  • Height: 5 1/2 in.
  • 14 cm

Provenance

Pelle Borjesson, Göteborg (acquired in 1953)
Collection Henri Duhem
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above on December 5, 1961)
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner on January 31, 1963

Literature

Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, no. 159, illustration of another cast p. 119
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, London, 1984, no. 19, illustration of another cast
Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 24, illustration of another cast p. 61