Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Henri Matisse
L’Écorché, d’après Puget
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March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Henri Matisse
1869 – 1954
L’Écorché, d’après Puget
inscribed with the initials HM, stamped with the foundry mark CIRE C. VALSUANI PERDUE and numbered 6/10 (on the base)
bronze
height: 22.5 cm. 8 ⅞ in.
Conceived in Paris in 1903; this example cast by the Valsuani foundry in 1958. This work is number 6 from an edition of 10 known examples.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.
Estate of the artist
Waddington Galleries Ltd., London (acquired by 1969)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1973)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Albert Edward Elsen, "The Sculpture of Henri Matisse," Artforum, September 1968, pp. 21-22, another cast illustrated
William Tucker, "Four Sculptors, Part 3: Matisse," International Studio, September 1970, fig. 2, p. 84, another cast illustrated
Albert Edward Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, pp. 22-25 and 105, p. 23, another cast illustrated
William Tucker, The Language of Sculpture, London, 1974, pp. 88-91, pl. 79, another cast illustrated
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, London, 1984, p. 145, pl. 8, another cast illustrated
Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 12, p. 26, this cast listed; p. 27, another cast illustrated