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HENRI MATISSE | Les Deux odalisques
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description
- Henri Matisse
- Les Deux odalisques
- Signed Henri. Matisse and dated 27 (lower right)
- Pencil on paper
- 15 by 21 3/4 in.
- 38.1 by 55.3 cm
- Executed in 1927.
Provenance
Galerie Berggruen, Paris (acquired by 1963)
Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (acquired by 1967)
Acquired from the above
Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (acquired by 1967)
Acquired from the above
Exhibited
Munich, Galerien Thannhauser, Henri Matisse, 1930, no. 133, illustrated in the catalogue
Montreal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, L’Oeil du collectionneur, 1996-97, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works, 2007-08, n.n.
Montreal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, L’Oeil du collectionneur, 1996-97, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works, 2007-08, n.n.
Literature
Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, no. 87, illustrated in color p. 85
Catalogue Note
Les Deux odalisques was made in preparation for a series of large, daringly colored canvases of one or more languorously reclining or seated women in various states of undress. This drawing bears the closest resemblance to a 1928 painting of two odalisques in the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.