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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

HENRI MATISSE | DANSEUSE DANS UN INTÉRIEUR, CARRELAGE VERT ET NOIR

Auction Closed

July 28, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000,000 - 12,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION


HENRI MATISSE

1869 - 1954

DANSEUSE DANS UN INTÉRIEUR, CARRELAGE VERT ET NOIR


signed Henri Matisse and dated 8/42 (lower right)

oil on canvas

49.9 by 61cm., 19⅝ by 24in.

Painted on 21st & 22nd August 1942. 


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.

Martin Fabiani, Paris (acquired by 1943) 

Private Collection, Switzerland

Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989

H. Matisse & A. Lejard (eds.), Matisse: 16 peintures, 1939-1943, Paris, 1943, illustrated in colour pl. IX (with inverted measurements)

L. Venturi, La peinture contemporaine, Milan, 1947, illustrated in its first state pl. 13  

H. Matisse & A. Lejard (eds.), Matisse: 16 peintures, 1939-1946, Paris, 1950, illustrated in colour pl. IX (with inverted measurements)

G. di San Lazzaro, ‘Hommage à Henri Matisse’, XXE siècle, Paris, 1970, illustrated p. 120 (titled Danseuse au tutu bleu)

L. Delectorskaya, Henri Matisse: Contre vents et marées: Peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943, Paris, 1996, illustrated in colour p. 371 

Lucerne, Musée des Beaux-Arts Lucerne, Henri Matisse, 1949, no. 109, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Danseuse assise dans un fauteuil jaune)