HENRI MATISSE | DANSEUSE DANS UN INTÉRIEUR, CARRELAGE VERT ET NOIR
Estimate:
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 GBP
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
HENRI MATISSE | DANSEUSE DANS UN INTÉRIEUR, CARRELAGE VERT ET NOIR
HENRI MATISSE | DANSEUSE DANS UN INTÉRIEUR, CARRELAGE VERT ET NOIR
Estimate:
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 GBP
Lot sold:
6,462,500
GBP
Description
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.
Condition report
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Provenance
Martin Fabiani, Paris (acquired by 1943)
Private Collection, Switzerland
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989
Literature
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
Exhibited
Lucerne, Musée des Beaux-Arts Lucerne, Henri Matisse, 1949, no. 109, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Danseuse assise dans un fauteuil jaune)