HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

Lot 30
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1492581
Lot 30 | HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Valeur estimée
$ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Océanie, le ciel
signed and numbered 'Henri Matisse 29/30' (lower right)
screenprint on linen
68 1/8 x 143 ½ in. (173 x 363.5 cm.)
Conceived in summer 1946 and executed in 1948




Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Mme Jean Matisse, Pontoise (by descent from the above).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above, August 1990).
Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above, November 1990).
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zug, Switzerland (acquired from the above, 1997).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 21 October 1997.



Literature

H. Matisse, "Océanie: tenture murale" in Labyrinthe, 1946, p. 3 (another example illustrated).
G. Diehl, "Henri Matisse: Contributions à l'art décoratif" in Art et décoration, no. 6, 1947, p. 7 (another example illustrated).
A.H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, London, 1951, p. 510 (another example illustrated; dated circa 1947).
G. Diehl, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1954, p. 91.
R. Escholier, Matisse: Ce vivant, Paris, 1956, p. 109 (another example illustrated, pl. 42).
J. Lassaigne, Biographie et critique, Geneva, 1959, pp. 114 and 117.
G.H. Brassaï, Conversations avec Picasso, Paris, 1964, pp. 305-306.
D. Fourcade, "Autres propos de Henri Matisse" in Macula, no. 1, 1976, p. 106.
J. Cowart, J.D. Flam, D. Fourcade and J.H. Neff, eds., Henri Matisse: Paper Cut-Outs, exh. cat., The St. Louis Museum of Art, 1977, p. 125, no. 56 (maquette illustrated in situ in Matisse's studio, Paris, pp. 48-49, fig. 25; maquette illustrated, p. 126; detail of maquette illustrated, p. 126, fig. 41).
J. Elderfield, The Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1978, p. 55 (another example illustrated in color, pl. 7).
I. Monod-Fontaine, Matisse, Paris, 1979, pp. 162-164 (another example illustrated, p. 163; maquette illustrated in situ in Matisse's studio, Paris, p. 163).
J. Guichard-Meili, Les gouaches découpées de Henri Matisse, Paris, 1983, p. 185 (another example illustrated in color).
V.D. Mendes and F.M. Hinchcliffe, Zika and Lida Ascher: Fabric, Art, Fashion, exh. cat., The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1987, pp. 34-41 (another example illustrated, p. 35).
U. Gauss, ed., Henri Matisse: Zeichnungen und Gouaches Découpées, exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993, p. 249 (another example illustrated in color).
J.D. Flam, Matisse on Art, Berkeley, 1995, p. 169 (another example illustrated, fig. 27).
P. Laudon, Matisse in Tahiti, Paris, 2001, p. 117 (maquette illustrated in color).
O. Berggruen and M. Hollein, eds., Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors, Masterpieces from the Late Years, exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2002, p. 93, no. 38 (another example illustrated).
H. Finsen, Matisse: A Second Life, exh. cat., Musée du Luxembourg, 2005, pp. 172-175 and 178, no. 113 (another example illustrated in color, p. 175).
R. Percheron and C. Brouder, Matisse: From Color to Architecture, New York, 2004, p. 286, no. 324 (another example illustrated in color, pp. 286-287).
H. Spurling, Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, New York, 2005, vol. 2, p. 446 (another example illustrated).
P. Deparpe, ed., Matisse: La couleur découpée, exh. cat., Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 2013, pp. 63-72 (maquette illustrated in color, pp. 74-75; maquette illustrated in situ, pp. 68-69, 71 and 73).
C. Debray, Matisse en son temps, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2015, p. 190, no. 89 (another version illustrated in color).
J. Klein, Matisse and Decoration, New Haven, 2018, pp. 120-121, no. 5.3 (illustrated).
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