Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Henri Matisse
Vénus à la coquille II
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Henri Matisse
1869 - 1954
Vénus à la coquille II
inscribed with the initials HM, numbered 5/10 (on the base) and stamped with the foundry mark CIRE C. VALSUANI PERDUE (on the side of the base)
bronze
height: 33 cm. 13 in.
Conceived in Nice in 1932; this example cast by the Valsuani foundry in 1958. This work is number 5 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)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 80, p. 228, this cast listed; p. 225 and 226, another cast illustrated