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Property from a Distinguished Collection, Japan

Henri Matisse

Torse de jeune fille

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Collection, Japan

Henri Matisse

(1869 - 1954)


Torse de jeune fille

signed Henri. Matisse (lower left)

oil on canvas

23 ⅞ by 19 ⅞ in.

60.5 by 50.5 cm.

Executed in 1921-22. 


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 13 February 1922)

Dr. Jacques Soubies, Paris (acquired from the above on 25 February 1922)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 June 1928, lot 65 (consigned by the above)

Shigetaro Fukushima, Paris and Japan (acquired at the above sale and until at least 1936)

Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired by 1938)

Private Collection, Japan (acquired circa 1984)

Acquired from the above circa 2009 by the present owner

Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, ed., Nice 1921. Seize Reproductions d’après les tableaux de Henri Matisse, Paris, 1922, pl. 10, illustrated (titled Torse de jeune fille devant un moucharabi rouge)

René Huyghe, “Matisse et la couleur,” Formes, no. 1, 1 January 1930, fig. 8, p. 9, illustrated (titled Odalisque au turban blanc)

Giovanni Scheiwiller, Henri Matisse, Milan, 1933, pl. XV, illustrated (titled Torso di Giovane and dated 1921)

Raymond Escholier, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1937, p. 125, illustrated (titled Odalisque au turban blanc)

Axel Revold, “Henri Matisse,” Kunst og Kultur, 1938, p. 37, illustrated (titled Torso and dated 1922)

Leo Swane, Matisse, Copenhagen, 1945, fig. 29, illustrated (titled Torso and dated 1922)

Alexander Romm, Matisse, A Social Critique, New York, 1947, illustrated (titled Odalisque in a White turban and dated 1926)

Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L’Opera de Matisse, dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all’intimismo, Milan, 1971, no. 341, p. 100, illustrated (titled Ragazza con vesti orientali and dated 1921) 

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Henri Matisse Chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. I, Paris, 1995, p. 110 (in reproduction of Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Henri Matisse, 1922); vol. II, Paris, 1995, no. 517, p. 1068, illustrated

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Henri Matisse, 1922, no. 15

Belgrade, Muzej kneza Pavla, Izlozhba modernog Frantsuskog slikarstva, 1936

Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst and Stockholm, Liljevachs Konsthall, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Laurens, 1938, no. 13, p. 13 (titled Torso and dated 1922)

Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Exposition Henri Matisse, 1938, no. 9 (titled Odalisque and dated 1923)

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition d’art français contemporain, 1938, no. 57, p. 39 (titled Odalisque and dated 1923)

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Exhibition of Modern Painting: Western and Japanese, 1953, nos. 87 and 88, pp. 17 and 35; pl. 41, illustrated (titled Odalisk)

Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, L'Exposition de l’ancienne collection Fukushima, 1966, no. 8, fig. 12, illustrated (dated 1922)