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Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg

Henri Matisse

L'Ananas clair

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May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

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Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954


L'Ananas clair

signed H. Matisse and dated 48 (lower right)

brush and ink on paper

41 by 29 ¼ in. 

103 by 74 cm. 

Executed in 1948.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse. 

G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh

Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago 

Private Collection, Chicago (acquired by 1961)

Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1987, lot 220 (consigned by the above)

R. Kaller-Kimche, Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection

James Goodman Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by 1996 by the present owner

Christian Zervos, ed., “A propos de l’Exposition Matisse au Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris,” Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1949, no. 1, p. 160, illustrated

Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Henri Matisse, Oeuvres recentes 1947-48, 1949, no. 19

New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, 1953, no. 57

The Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, 1961

Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von der Heydt Museum and Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister, El Greco bis Mondrian, 1996, n.n., p. 169, illustrated in color