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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 21 | $****** - ****** | Le Bras | |||
May 11, 1987 | Sotheby's | New York | N/A | 78 | Estimates not disclosed | Le bras |
paintings
46 x 38.4 cm (18.13 x 15.13 in)
oil on canvas
signed Henri Matisse and dated 38 (lower left)
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (acquired directly from the artist in June 1938)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above on 16 September 1959)
Torcuato di Tella Foundation, Buenos Aires (acquired from the above on 15 March 1960)
Christie"s, London, 27 June 1972, lot 24 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection
Sotheby"s, New York, 11 May 1987, lot 78 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Exposition Henri Matisse, 1938, no. 28
Santa Fe, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes "Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez", 1952
Buenos Aires, Hotel Provincial, 1961
Buenos Aires, Museo de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Colección Torcuato di Tella , 1963, n.p. (titled El Brazo )
Buenos Aires, Museo de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Colección Torcuato di Tella , 1964
Buenos Aires, Asociación Cultural Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1964
Buenos Aires, Museo de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Colección Torcuato di Tella , 1967
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, 1992-93, pl. 322, p. 362; p. 392, illustrated in color
Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum; Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister and Lausanne, Fondation de l"Hermitage, El Greco bis Mondrian, 1996, n.n., p. 164; p. 165, illustrated in color; pp. 166-67, illustrations of the work in progress
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry, 1999, no. 38, fig. 108, illustrated in color; pp. 112 and 114; p. 119, illustrated in color; p. 258
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Henri Matisse-Figure, Farbe, Raum , 2005-06, no. 162, p. 246, illustrated in color; p. 370
Kunsthaus Zürich, Matisse - Metamorphosis , 2019, no. 59, p. 133, illustrated in color; p. 217
Christian Zervos, ed., Cahiers d"Art , nos. 1-4, 1939, p. 78, illustrated
Gyorgy Kepes, ed., Sign, Image, Symbol , New York, 1966, fig. 15, p. 160, illustrated
Pierre Schneider, Matisse , New York, 1984, p. 401, illustrated in color
Lydia Delectorskaya, With apparent ease…Henri Matisse, Paintings from 1935-1939, Paris, 1988, p. 252, illustrated (in initial states); p. 253, illustrated in color (with incorrect dimensions)
Gilles Néret, Matisse , Paris, Casterman, 1991, no. 253, p. 168, illustrated
Walter Guadagnini, Matisse , Milan, 1993, p. 212, illustrated in color; p. 213
Exh. Cat., Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Matisse: 1917-1941 , 2009, no. 65, p. 151, illustrated in color; p. 233
René Percheron and Christian Brouder, Matisse, de la couleur à l"architecture , Paris, 2005, no. 387, p. 358, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Matisse: Paires et séries , 2012, p. 179, illustrated in color; p. 278
Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Henri Matisse
(1869 - 1954)
Le Bras
signed Henri Matisse and dated 38 (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 ⅛ by 15 ⅛ in. 46 by 38.3 cm.
Executed in January-June 1938.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.
