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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 | 31 | $****** - ****** | Le Bouquet d"anémones |
paintings
61.6 x 47 cm (24.25 x 18.5 in)
oil on canvas laid down on panel
signed Henri Matisse (lower right)
Alex Reid and Lefevre, Ltd., London
M. Knoedler & Co., London (acquired from the above on 23 March 1927)
C. W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in July 1927)
Helen Sears Bradley, Southboro, Massachusetts (acquired by 1940)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 11 December 1947, lot 167 (consigned by the above)
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (acquired at the above sale)
William Willard Crocker, San Francisco (acquired from the above on 11 May 1949)
Acquired on 1 June 1949 as a gift from the above to the present owner
(possibly) Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Oeuvres récentes de Henri Matisse , 1919, no. 22
(possibly) London, Mansard Gallery, Exhibition of French Art , 1914-1919 , 1919, no. 38 (titled Flowerpiece )
London, M. Knoedler & Co., Exhibition of Flower Pictures , 1927, no. 48, p. 12, illustrated in color on the cover (titled Vase de fleurs sur un table and dated 1923)
New York, C. W. Kraushaar Galleries, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings , 1927, no. 12 (titled Vase de fleurs sur une table )
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1940-41 (on extended loan)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco Museum of Art, Henri Matisse , 1951-52, no. 22 (titled Vase of Anemones ; exhibited in San Francisco only)
San Francisco Museum of Art, 20th Anniversary Exhibitions: The Museum and its Collections, Collections of Modern Art , 1955
Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, California Collects: Important Works from the Permanent Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , 1981-82, no. 28 (titled Vase of Anemones )
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Matisse and Beyond: A Century of Modernism , 1998
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Picasso and the School of Paris , 2006-07
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Selected Histories: 20th Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection , 2011
Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Matisse from SFMOMA , 2013-14
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Matisse in the Studio , 2017, no. 44, p. 58; p. 59, illustrated in color; p. 196 (titled Vase of Anemones )
Apollo , vol. 6, June-December 1927, p. 262, illustrated in color
Herbert Furst, The Art of Still Life Painting , London, 1927, fig. 85, illustrated in color (titled Flower Piece )
Quarterly Bulletin of the San Francisco Museum of Art , vol. I, nos. 1-2, 1952, p. 24, illustrated
Quarterly Bulletin of the San Francisco Museum of Art , vol. II, nos. 3-4, 1953, p. 24, illustrated
Quarterly Bulletin of the San Francisco Museum of Art , vol. IV, no. 2, 1955, p. 32, illustrated
Pierre Reverdy, Nord Sud, self-défense et autres écrits sur l"art et la poésie , Paris, 1975, no. 22, p. 330
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art , 1978-79, p. 203
Exh. Cat., Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Henri Matisse: Sculptor/Painter , 1984, p. 99, note 6
(possibly) Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Henri Matisse Chez Bernheim-Jeune , vol. I, Paris, 1995, p. 99 (in reproduction of Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Oeuvres récentes de Henri Matisse , 1919)
Property from SFMOMA: Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Henri Matisse
(1869 - 1954)
Le Bouquet d"anémones
signed Henri Matisse (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on panel
24 ¼ by 18 ½ in. 61.6 by 47 cm.
Executed in 1918.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.
