Lot 203
  • 203

Henri Matisse

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri Matisse
  • Nature morte au chapeau Tahitien
  • Signed H. Matisse and dated 3/44 (lower left)
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 15 3/4 by 20 1/2 in.
  • 40 by 52 cm

Provenance

Mouradian, Paris
Private Collection
Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris
Private Collection
Waddington Galleries, London
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Weingrow, New York
Acquired from the above

Exhibited

Marseille, Musée Cantini, Gustave Moreau et ses élèves, 1962, no. 86, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Maîtres Impressionnistes et Modernes, 1988, no. 41, illustrated in the catalogue
London, Waddington Galleries, Works on Paper, 1989, no. 10, illustrated in the catalogue
London, Waddington Galleries, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, 1989, no. 15, illustrated in the catalogue
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collects: The Gilded Age to the 1990s, 1993, n.n.

Literature

André Louis Marie Rouveyre, Hommage, Monaco, 1944, illustrated n.p.
Franz Dvorak, Matisse—Kresby, Prague, 1962, illustrated p. 20
Raoul Jean Moulin, Henri Matisse, Drawings and Paper Cut-outs, London, 1969, illustrated p. 33

Condition

Executed on cream colored wove paper, not laid down. Sheet is affixed to a mount at several places around perimeter on verso. Edges are deckled. Faint mat stain around the extreme perimeter of the work. Sheet is slightly time darkened overall. Some faint pindots of foxing scattered in places, barely visible. Otherwise fine. This work is in very good condition.
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