Lot 173
  • 173

Henri Matisse

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Description

  • Henri Matisse
  • PORTRAIT D'ALICIA PENALBA
  • signed H. Matisse, dated Avril 49 and dedicated à Alicia Pérez Penalba (lower left)

  • black crayon on paper

  • 40.6 by 52.8cm., 16 by 20 3/8 in.

Provenance

Alicia Pérez Penalba (a gift from the artist)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 29th June 1988, lot 414
Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1988

Exhibited

Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, À la rencontre de Matisse, 1969, no. 85

Catalogue Note

Alicia Penalba was an Argentinian sculptor who arrived in Paris in 1948 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and who later worked in Zadkine's studio.