HENRI MATISSE | ÉTUDE D'HOMME NU

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Florida Collection

HENRI MATISSE

1869 - 1954

ÉTUDE D'HOMME NU

Signed Henri. Matisse (lower right)

Pencil on paper

12⅛ by 9⅜ in. (30.8 by 23.8 cm)

Framed: 21¾ by 18½ in. (55.2 by 47 cm)

Executed circa 1900.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Madame Marguerite Duthuit, Wanda de Guébriant and Georges Matisse.

Olivier Sainsère, Paris

Sale: Sotheby's, London, November 30, 1967, lot 65

Kenneth Noland, New York (and sold by the estate: Sotheby's, New York, November 3, 2010, lot 113)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 10, 2016, lot 197)

Acquired at the above sale

It has been suggested that this work is possibly a nude self portrait of the artist.