Lot 395
  • 395

HENRI MATISSE | Petit nu au polochon

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

Description

  • Henri Matisse
  • Petit nu au polochon
  • Stamped with the initials HM and with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue and numbered 6/10 
  • Bronze
  • Length: 10 1/2 in.
  • 26.7 cm
  • Conceived in 1918 and cast circa 1930 in an edition of 12 numbered 00/10 - 7/10, 9 and 10.

Provenance

Weintraub Gallery, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 9, 1995, lot 349)
Private Collection, Miami (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent

Literature

Mario Luzi & Massimo Carra, L'Opera di Matisse dalla rivolta 'Fauve' all'intimismo, 1904-1928, Milan, 1971, no. S18, illustration of another cast p. 108
Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henry Matisse, New York, 1972, illustration of another cast p. 192
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, London, 1975, illustration of another cast p. 424
Michael P. Mezzatesta, Henri Matisse, Sculptor/Painter, Fort Worth, 1984, illustration of another cast pp. 110-12
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, London, 1984, no. 54, illustration of another cast p. 147
Pierre Schneider, Matisse, New York, 1984, illustration of another cast p. 552
Claude Duthuit, Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, illustrations of another cast pp. 175 & 177

Condition

The work is in very good condition. Dark brown patina with golden brown highlights. Some dust in deeper crevices.
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