HENRI MANGUIN | Petite odalisque or Nu à la nature morte

Galerie E. Druet, Paris (acquired from the artist in April 1912)
Richard Buhler, Winterthur
Sale: Galerie Koller A.G., Zurich, 9th June 1989, lot 5175
Private Collection, Switzerland (sold: Sotheby's, New York, 4th May 2006, lot 186)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie E. Druet, Manguin, 1913, no. 24

Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu, Henri Manguin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1980, no. 383, illustrated p. 157

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Petite odalisque or Nu à la nature morte depicts 'la petite Marie', a frequent sitter for Henri Manguin around the time the painting was executed in 1911. Manguin significantly contributed to the movement of Fauvism, experimenting with the effects of rich, harmonious colours and seductive motifs and his cheerful temperament prompted Henri Matisse to name his friend the 'indefatigable Manguin' (quoted in Hilary Spurling, The Unknown Matisse, Berkeley, 2001, p. 82). The present painting was previously owned by Richard Bühler, an avid collector of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art based in Winterthur. Bühler had first encountered Manguin in 1910, on one of his regular visits to Switzerland from 1910. Over the subsequent years he accumulated over thirty works by Manguin and his committed patronage of the artist led Manguin to paint a double portrait of Bühler's children in the spring of 1913.