Henri Matisse

Property from an Important Private East Coast Collection

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

Primavera

signed in pencil Henri Matisse and inscribed essai (lower right)

linoleum cut on Daragnès wove paper

image: 9 by 6⅝ in. (22.9 by 16.9 cm.)

sheet: 20½ by 13 in. (51.9 by 33.1 cm.)

Executed in 1938; this impression is one of three trial proofs aside from the numbered edition of 25 plus five artist's proofs.