Henri Lebasque

Private Collection, France
Sale: Delvaux, Paris, December 19, 2005, lot 29
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 8, 2007, lot 255
Acquired at the above sale

Denise Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Paris, 2008, no. 1081, illustrated p. 270

This work is in good condition. The canvas is not lined. There is an intermittent line of retouching running horizontal to the top edge. There are intermittent small spots of retouching to the top left and top right edges, visible under UV light.
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'His nudes are self-contained, turning their faces away in a romantic gesture of modesty, striking contrast to the enticement of Matisse's harem-trousered nudes... These women, softened and full as the bodies of Renoir's nudes, have a substance and naturalism which makes them immediately pleasing. They are presented in a manner to suggest the artist's ease with his model and her naturalness with him' (L. Banner & P. Fairbanks, Lebasque 1865-1937, San Francisco, 1986, p. 74).

Fig. 1 Henri Matisse, Odalisque à la culotte rouge, 1921, oil on canvas, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris