Lot 415
  • 415

Henri Matisse

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri Matisse
  • BELLE ISLE TEMPÊTE
  • Signed Matisse, titled, and dedicated à Jean Puy (upper right)

  • Oil on canvas
  • 21 1/4 by 25 5/8 in.
  • 54 by 65 cm

Provenance

Sale: Palais Galliéra, Paris, December 5, 1968, lot 62
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 9, 1970, lot 56
Numaga Gallery, Auvernier (Switzerland)
Private Collection, Switzerland

Condition

In very good condition. The canvas is unlined. Surface is clean. Under UV, several tiny dots of loss at upper corners show inpainting – this is confined to the sky. One other dot is visible in the left sky, otherwise fine.
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Catalogue Note

For additional information on Matisse's time in Belle-Ile and related works, please see Xavier Girard, Matisse, Une splendeur inouïe, Paris, 1994, pp. 22-23 as well as Lawrence Gowing, Matisse, London, 1979, p.18.