Henri Matisse

Portrait de Femme (Thème E, Variation 8)

signed Henri Matisse, dated 41 and inscribed E8 (lower left)

pencil on paper

20¾ by 16 in.

52.7 by 40.7 cm.

Executed in 1941.

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Henri Matisse
Portrait de Femme (Thème E, Variation 8)

signed Henri Matisse, dated 41 and inscribed E8 (lower left)

pencil on paper

20¾ by 16 in.

52.7 by 40.7 cm.

Executed in 1941.

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris (acquired in 1946)

Private Collection, Geneva (acquired by 2005)

Private Collection, Hong Kong

Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2008, lot 314 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibition

Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Henri Matisse, 2003-4, no. P242

Paris, Musée du Luxembourg and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Matisse, une seconde vie, 2005, no. 39, p. 94, illustrated

Literature

Henri Matisse, Dessins: Thèmes et Variations, Paris, 1943, n.p., illustrated

Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Anne Baldassari and Claude Laugier, Matisse: œuvres de Henri Matisse, Paris, 1989, p. 259, illustrated

Henri Matisse, Drawings: Themes and Variations, New York, 1995, p. 39, illustrated

Lydia Delectorskaya, Henri Matisse, Contre vents et marées, peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943, Paris, 1996, p. 220, illustrated