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HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

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Auction dateClassic
09.11.2023 18:30UTC -04:00
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ID 1064361
Lot 47 | HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

Nature more au purro, I

signed 'Henri Matisse' (lower right)

oil on canvas

23 ½ x 28 7⁄8 in. (60.4 x 73.3 cm.)

Painted in Saint-Tropez in 1904





Provenance

Galerie Druet, Paris.

Gustave Fayet, Paris (acquired from the above, 4 October 1906).

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 18 December 1908).

Alphonse Kahn, Paris (acquired from the above, 29 December 1908, until at least 1910).

Jean Laroche, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 December 1928, lot 59.

Galerie Etienne Bignou, Paris (acquired at the above sale).

Mr. and Mrs. J.B.A. Kessler, London (by 1929).

The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), London (acquired from the above, 1958).

Acquired from the above by the Phillips family, 14 April 1958.



Literature

C. Zervos, Matisse, Paris, 1931, p. 30 (illustrated, fig. 20).

A.H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, New York, 1951, pp. 59, 86 and 314 (illustrated, p. 314).

G. Diehl, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1958, pp. 22-23.

J. Leymarie, L'Espressionismo e il Fauvismo, Milan, 1967, pp. 243 and 275 (illustrated).

J. Flam, Matisse on Art, New York, 1973, pp. 11 and 24 (illustrated, fig. 12).

A. Izerghina, Henri Matisse: Paintings and Sculptures in Soviet Museums, Leningrad, 1978, p. 133 (illustrated).

C.C. Bock, Henri Matisse and Neo-Impressionism: 1898-1908, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981, pp. 38 and 63.

P. Schneider, M. Carrà and X. Deryng, Tout l'œuvre peint de Matisse: 1904-1928, Paris, 1982, p. 86, no. 31 (illustrated).

J. Rewald, The John Hay Whitney Collection, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, p. 119.

J. Flam, Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869-1918, Paris, 1986, pp. 110 and 120 (illustrated, p. 110, fig. 92).

J. Rewald, Studies in Post-Impressionism, New York, 1986, pp. 261-262 and 289 (illustrated, p. 262, fig. 60).

G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Matisse, Paris, 1995, p. 378, no. 54 (illustrated, p. 379).

S. Monneret, Matisse: His Life and Complete Works, New York, 1995, p. 88, no. 33 (illustrated).

H. Spurling, Unknown Matisse, New York, 1998, pp. 283-284.

J.P. Monery, Henri Matisse: Emerveillement pour le Sud, exh. cat., Musée de Saint Tropez, 2004, pp. 34 and 37.

M. Korn, Collecting Paintings by Matisse and by Picasso, New York, 2004, p. 123.

R. Labrusse and J. Munck, Matisse-Derain: La vérité du fauvisme, Paris, 2005, pp. 18, 92, 200 and 323 (illustrated, p. 18, pl. 10).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Henri Matisse, February 1910, p. 7, no. 32 (dated 1906).

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Henri Matisse, June-July 1931, p. 13, no. 8 (dated 1903).

New York, City of York Art Gallery, French Paintings from the Kessler Collection, 1948, no. 7.

London, Wildenstein & Co. Ltd., London, Kessler Collection, 1948, no. 18.

London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), Paintings by XX Century French Masters, March 1958, p. 12, no. 11 (illustrated; dated 1903).

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: 64 Paintings, July-September 1966, pp. 25 and 61, no. 9 (illustrated, p. 25).

New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Henri Matisse: 1904-1917, September-June 1993, p. 128, no. 45 (illustrated in color, p. 129).

Paris, Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Matisse: In Search of True Painting, March 2012-March 2013, p. 198, no. 8 (illustrated in color).



Further Details

Georges Matisse has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

After the pre-sale exhibition, this lot will be transferred to storage in Delaware and will be available for shipment from Delaware. Please note that title to the lot will transfer to the buyer in accordance with the Conditions of Sale while the lot is in storage in Delaware. Contact Christie’s Client Service team at +1 212 636 2000 for further details.
Artist:Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Still life
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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