A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction
A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction
Jeune fille en robe rose
Live auction begins on:
November 18, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henri Matisse
(1869 - 1954)
Jeune fille en robe rose
signed Henri Matisse and dated 10/42 (upper left)
oil on canvas
21 ⅝ by 18 ⅛ in.
55.1 by 46 cm.
Executed in Nice in October 1942.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.
Martin Fabiani, Paris (acquired by 1943)
Galerie Schmit, Paris (acquired by 1974 and until at least 1979)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by 1987)
Waddington Galleries, London (acquired in 1996 and until 1998)
Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Les Éditions du Chêne, ed., Matisse, Seize Peintures 1939-1943, Paris, 1943, pl. XII, illustrated in color (titled La Dame au corsage rose)
Christian Zervos, ed., Cahiers d’Art, 1940-44, Paris, 1944, p. 135, illustrated
Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse: a novel, vol. I, New York, 1972, p. 137, illustrated (in a photograph of the artist’s studio)
Lydia Delectorskaya, Henri Matisse: Contre vents et marées, Peintures et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943, Paris, 1996, p. 408, illustrated in color; p. 551 (titled Tête ocre, fond losange and dated 6 October 1942)
Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master, A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954, New York, 2005, p. 387, illustrated (in a photograph of the artist’s studio)
London, Victoria and Albert Museum; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exhibition of Paintings by Picasso and Matisse, 1945-46, no. 30 (London and Amsterdam); no. 20, n.p., illustrated (Brussels; illustrated as no. 21) (titled Jeune fille)
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Portraits français, XIXe et XXe siècles, 1974, pl. 35, illustrated in color (titled Femme en rose and with incorrect inscription)
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres français, XIXe et du XXe siècles, 1979, no. 47
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