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HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

Lot 17
28.05.2024 18:00UTC +08:00
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HKD 3 024 000
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ID 1225659
Lot 17 | HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Estimate value
HKD 2 800 000 – 3 800 000
HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Femme nue allongée
signed and dated 'Henri-Matisse 1935' (lower left)
pen and India ink on paper
45.1 x 56.1 cm. (17 ¾ x 22 1/8 in.)
Drawn in Nice in 1935




Provenance

Estate of the artist, until 1983
James Kirkman, London
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
Herbert Kasper, New York, acquired from the above in 1985; sale, Christie's New York, 13 November 2021, lot 550
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Exhibited

London, The Leicester Galleries (Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd.), Exhibition of drawing and lithographs by Henri Matisse, February 1936.
New York, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, XIX & XX Century Master Drawings & Watercolors, October - November 1984, no. 8, p. 16 (illustrated p. 3; titled Grand nu).
New York, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Master Works on Paper: Degas to Sam Francis, December 1984 (illustrated on the cover).
New York, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Henri Matisse: Selected Drawings from 1907-1952, April - May 1985, no. 16, p. 24 (illustrated p. 19; titled Grand nu).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, September 1992 - January 1993, no. 308, pp. 27, 357 and 378 (illustrated p. 378; titled Large Nude).
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Collects, Drawings and Watercolors, 1900-1950, May - August 1999, no. 9, pp. 48-49 & 312 (illustrated p. 49; titled Female Nude (Grand nu)).
London, Tate Modern, Matisse Picasso, May - August 2002; this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Les Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, September 2002 - January 2003; and later travelled to New York, The Museum of Modern Art, February - May 2003, no. 138, pp. 263 & 395 (illustrated p. 263; illustrated again p. 254; titled Grand nu).
New York, The Morgan Library & Museum, Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, January - May 2011, no. 50, p. 130 (illustrated p. 131; titled Large Nude).



Further details

The late Wanda de Guébriant confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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