Henri Matisse
Fleurs
Auction Closed
May 14, 06:49 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henri Matisse
1869 - 1954
Fleurs
signed with the initials HM. (lower right)
watercolor, pen and ink and pencil on paper
3 ½ by 8 ⅞ in.
8.9 by 22.5 cm.
Executed in 1945.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the late Wanda de Guébriant.
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Michel de Brunhoff, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Michel de Brunhoff, Parfums, Paris, 1945, illustration of a related example
This work is a preparatory sketch for Michel de Brunhoff's Parfums, published in Paris in 1945. Brunhoff was Editor-in-Chief of French Vogue from 1929-54.
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