Lot 49
  • 49

Henri Matisse

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henri Matisse
  • Figure au visage coupé assise dans un intérieur (D. 187)
  • Etching
  • plate: 151 by 225mm 6 by 8 7/8 in
  • sheet: 287 by 383mm 11 1/4 by 15 1/8 in
Etching, 1929, signed in pencil, numbered 9/25, on chine appliqué on Arches wove support, framed

Provenance

Ex coll. An unidentifiable collector's mark verso

Condition

With full margins (a deckle at lower sheet edge), occasional areas of very light rubbing and very minor traces of surface soiling, a few minute fox marks (mainly verso), framed. ('A133' inscribed in pencil at the lower edge of sheet recto, occasional stray fibres in the image).
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