ID 1064361
Lot 47 | HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
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.
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| Artist: | Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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