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Property of the Toledo Museum of Art, to Benefit Future Acquisitions

Henri Matisse

Fleurs ou Fleurs devant un portrait

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May 18, 01:03 AM GMT

Estimate

12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of the Toledo Museum of Art, to Benefit Future Acquisitions

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

Fleurs ou Fleurs devant un portrait


signed Henri. Matisse (lower right)

oil on canvas

39 ½ by 32 in. 100.3 by 81.2 cm.

Executed in 1923.


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


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托雷多藝術博物館館藏,收益用於未來購藏

亨利・馬蒂斯

1869 - 1954年

《鮮花》或《畫像前的鮮花》


款識:藝術家簽名Henri. Matisse(右下)

油彩畫布

39 ½ x 32 英寸;100.3 x 81.2 公分

1923年作

喬治・馬蒂斯已為此作提供認證。

Please note there is an Irrevocable Bid on this lot.
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on 17 December 1923)
Josse Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired by transfer from the above)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the above on 3 November 1933)
Acquired from the above in 1935 by the present owner 
Roger Fry, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1930, fig. 22, illustrated   
Gothard Jedlicka, Henri-Matisse, Paris, 1930, pl. 22, illustrated in color (titled Fleurs and dated 1924)
Blake-More Godwin, Catalogue of European Paintings, Toledo, 1939, p. 258 and p. 259, illustrated (titled Vase of Flowers)
Toledo Museum of Art, ed., "Our Painting by Matisse," Museum News, no. 88, Toledo, December 1939, illustrated
Denys Sutton, "Nineteenth-Century Painting: Trends and Cross Currents," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, December 1967, p. 492; p. 494, illustrated 
Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 109, catalogued; pl. 291, p. 347, illustrated 
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. II, Paris, 1995, no. 600, p. 1179, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Henri Matisse, 1924, no. 29 (?)
The Toledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Movements in European Painting: Surrealism, Abstract Art, Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Fauves, 1938, no. 72 (titled Vase of Flowers)
Los Angeles County Museum, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, 1941, no. 29 (titled Vase of Flowers)
Denver Art Museum, The Turn of the Century—Exhibition of Masterpieces, 1880-1920, 1956, no. 20
Osaka, Musée de la Ville, Exposition Yuzo Saheki et les peintres de l'Ecole de Paris, 1989, no. 85, illustrated in color 
Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery; Canberra, National Gallery of Australia and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Matisse, 1995, no. 103, p. 32; p. 217, illustrated in color (titled Flowers and dated circa 1924)