Henri Matisse

Vénus assise

Lot Closed

November 19, 05:43 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara & Ira Lipman

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

Vénus assise

Inscribed with the initials HM., numbered 9 and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue

Bronze

Height: 9 in. (22.8 cm)

Conceived in 1918 and cast in a numbered edition of 10 by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris between 1929 and 1954; this example cast in 1952.

Estate of the artist
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York
Saul Steinberg, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 26, 1976, lot 67)
Private Collection (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 12, 1987, lot 288)
Acquired at the above sale

Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, illustrations of another cast figs. 187-89,
Alicia Legg, The Sculpture of Matisse, New York, 1972, no. 51, illustration of another cast p. 33
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, London & New York, 1984, no. 53, illustration of another cast n.p.
Claude Duthuit, Henri Matisse, L'Oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, no. 61, illustrations of another cast p. 142-43
Claude Duthuit, Henri Matisse, L'Oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 61, illustration of another cast p. 171