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Henri Matisse

Éperlans

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

By Land and By Sea: The Collection of Paul Yeou Chichong

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

Éperlans


signed Henri Matisse (lower right)

oil on canvas

15 by 17 ⅞ in.

38 by 45.5 cm.

Executed in Étretat in 1920. 


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Wanda de Guébriant.

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on 6 October 1920)
Alphonse Kann, Paris (acquired from the above on 6 October 1920; seized from him by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in October 1940 (inventory # Ka 1074); restituted after the war)
Mayor Gallery, London (acquired in 1950)
Eric and Salome Estorick, London (acquired from the above on 5 April 1952)
Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s London, 6 February 2001, lot 132 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Giovanni Scheiwiller, "Henri Matisse," Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1931, no. 3-5, fig. 77, p. 307, illustrated 
Cahiers d’Art, Deluxe Edition, 1931, fig. 79, p. 86, illustrated
"Exhibition review," The Times, London, 16 November 1951
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. II, Paris, 1995, no. 433, pp. 944-45, illustrated
Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Henri Matisse, 1931, no. 83
London, Mayor Gallery, Paintings, 1951, no. 19
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Paintings from the Estorick Collection, 1960, no. 21
London, Mayor Gallery, A Loan Exhibition in Memory of Fred Hoyland Mayor, 1973, no. 13
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