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Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection

Henri Matisse

Femme debout

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May 4, 01:43 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

Femme debout


signed Henri Matisse (lower right)

brush and pen and ink on extended paper

32.2 by 20.2cm., 12¾ by 8in.

Framed: 54.4 by 41.8cm., 21⅛ by 16½in.

Executed in 1905-06.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Madame Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse and Georges Matisse. 

Hans Purrmann, Germany (probably acquired from the artist. Sold: Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 7th & 8th June 1978, lot 620)
Galerie Borgmann, Cologne (purchased at the above sale)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 8th December 1998, lot 330)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Waldemar George, Henri Matisse Dessins, Paris, 1925, illustrated pl. 14
Georges Duthuit, Les Fauves, Geneva, 1949, illustrated p. 78