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Henri Matisse

Fleurs

Vente aux enchères clôturée

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimation

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Description du lot

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.