Lot 129
  • 129

Henri Matisse

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henri Matisse
  • Odalisque et femme nue
  • Stamped with the initials HM. (lower right)
  • Pencil on paper
  • 11 1/8 by 15 1/4 in.
  • 28.3 by 38.8 cm

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York
Waddington Galleries, London
Helen Serger/ La Boetie, Inc., New York
Ronnie Meyerson, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above in 1990

Exhibited

New York, Helen Serger/ La Boetie, Inc., Matisse, Drawings from 1915 to 1951, 1989, no. 4

Condition

Work is in very good condition. Executed on cream wove paper. Affixed to mount at upper corners on verso. Three small tears along left edge appear inherent to deckling. Right, left and bottom edges of sheet are deckled. Some minor surface dirt at extreme edges and a few pindot surface stains throughout, otherwise fine. Numbered 20 at upper right corner, likely by another hand.
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