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Henri Matisse

Tête de Marguerite

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954


Tête de Marguerite

inscribed with the initials HM, numbered 10/10, and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue

bronze

height: 12 ⅜ in. 31.5 cm.

Conceived in Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1915, this example cast in 1952.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Etta E. Steinberg, St. Louis
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 11 May 1977, lot 71 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Mrs. Harry Keller (acquired from the above)
Christie's, New York, 12 May 1987, lot 43
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Alfred H. Barr, Matisse, His Art and His Public, New York 1951, p. 401, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, UCLA Art Council and UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Henri Matisse, 1966, no. 122, pp. 135 and 194, illustrations of another cast
Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L'Opera di Matisse, dalla rivolta fauve all'intimismo, 1904-1928, Milan 1971, no. S 17, p. 108, illustration of another cast
Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Matisse, New York 1972, figs. 182-184, pp. 136-138, illustrations of another cast
Alicia Legg, The Sculpture of Matisse, New York 1972, p. 32, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Nice, Musée Matisse, Henri Matisse. Sculptures, 1974, no. 45, p. 30, illustration of another cast
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Matisse, London 1984, no. 51, p. 147, illustration of another cast
Michael P. Mezzatesta, Henri Matisse. Sculptor/Painter. A Formal Analysis of Selected Works, Fort Worth 1984, p. 11, illustration of another cast 
Jack Flam, Matisse, The Man and His Art 1896-1918, New York 1986, pp. 185 and 491, illustrations of another cast
Claude Duthuit and Françoise Gernaud, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris 1994, no. 58, pp. 136-139, illustrations of another cast