HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

Lot 52
28.06.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 52 | HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
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£ 1 400 000 – 1 800 000
HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

Nu accroupi près d'un aquarium (Nu aux poissons rouges)

signed 'Henri.Matisse' (lower right)

oil on canvas

8 7⁄8 x 10 3⁄4 in. (22.5 x 27.3 cm.)

Painted in Nice in 1921-1922





Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (no. 178), by whom acquired directly from the artist.

Ms Nelle E. Mullen, Merion, Pennsylvania, by whom acquired from the above on 24 January 1934; her estate sale, Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, 15 November 1967, lot 31.

Heinz Berggruen, Paris, in 1973.

Stephen Hahn, New York, by whom acquired in 1978.

Private Collection, United Kingdom, by whom acquired from the above in 1984; sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 2016, lot 6.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

The Art News, vol. XXXII, no. 18, New York, 3 February 1934, p. 6 (illustrated).

S. Cheney, Expressionism in Art, New York, 1934, no. 131, pp. xix & 268-269 (illustrated p. 268).

Apollo, London, vol. LXXXVI, no. 68, October 1967, p. lxxvii (illustrated).

The Connoisseur, vol. 166, no. 668, London, October 1967, n.p. (illustrated).

G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Matisse, vol. II, Paris, 1995, no. 525, p. 1077 (illustrated).

P. Schneider, Matisse, Paris, 2002, p. 352 (illustrated).

H. Spurling, Matisse the Master, A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954, London, 2005, no. 22, pp. XV & 249 (illustrated pl. 22).



Exhibited

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Henri Matisse: Paintings, January - February 1934, no. 20, n.p..



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