HENRI MATISSE | LE CARREFOUR DE MALABRY

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October 29, 01:50 AM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections

HENRI MATISSE

1869 - 1954

LE CARREFOUR DE MALABRY

Signed Henri. Matisse (lower left)

Oil on canvas

24 by 15⅛ in.

61 by 38.4 cm

Painted in 1917.

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

Please note this lot is subject to an irrevocable bid. Please note the estimate of this work has been lowered to $500,000 - 700,000.

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on October 27, 1917)

Bernheim-Jeune, Lausanne (transferred from the above on December 31, 1919)

Carstairs Gallery, New York

Laura L. Barnes, Merion, Pennsylvania

A bequest from the above in 1967

Roger Fry, Henri-Matisse, London, 1935, illustrated pl. 28

Isaac Grünewald, Matisse och expressionismen, Stockholm, 1944, illustrated p. 54

Jack Flam, Matisse, The Man and His Art, London, 1986, illustrated p. 462

Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. I, Paris, 1995, no. 207, illustrated p. 623

Stephanie D'Alessandro & John Elderfield, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 (exhibition catalogue, Art Institute of Chicago, 2010, fig. 16, illustrated in color p. 318