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Henri Matisse

Éperlans

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May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

By Land and By Sea: The Collection of Paul Yeou Chichong

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

Éperlans


signed Henri Matisse (lower right)

oil on canvas

15 by 17 ⅞ in.

38 by 45.5 cm.

Executed in Étretat in 1920. 


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Wanda de Guébriant.

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on 6 October 1920)
Alphonse Kann, Paris (acquired from the above on 6 October 1920; seized from him by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in October 1940 (inventory # Ka 1074); restituted after the war)
Mayor Gallery, London (acquired in 1950)
Eric and Salome Estorick, London (acquired from the above on 5 April 1952)
Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s London, 6 February 2001, lot 132 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Henri Matisse, 1931, no. 83
London, Mayor Gallery, Paintings, 1951, no. 19
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Paintings from the Estorick Collection, 1960, no. 21
London, Mayor Gallery, A Loan Exhibition in Memory of Fred Hoyland Mayor, 1973, no. 13
Giovanni Scheiwiller, "Henri Matisse," Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1931, no. 3-5, fig. 77, p. 307, illustrated 
Cahiers d’Art, Deluxe Edition, 1931, fig. 79, p. 86, illustrated
"Exhibition review," The Times, London, 16 November 1951
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. II, Paris, 1995, no. 433, pp. 944-45, illustrated