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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 9, 2023 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 47B | $****** - ****** | Nature more au purro, I |
paintings
59.7 x 73.3 cm (23.5 x 28.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed "Henri Matisse" (lower right)
Galerie Druet, Paris.
Gustave Fayet, Paris (acquired from the above, 4 October 1906).
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 18 December 1908).
Alphonse Kahn, Paris (acquired from the above, 29 December 1908, until at least 1910).
Jean Laroche, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 December 1928, lot 59.
Galerie Etienne Bignou, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Mr. and Mrs. J.B.A. Kessler, London (by 1929).
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), London (acquired from the above, 1958).
Acquired from the above by the Phillips family, 14 April 1958.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Henri Matisse , February 1910, p. 7, no. 32 (dated 1906).
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Henri Matisse , June-July 1931, p. 13, no. 8 (dated 1903).
New York, City of York Art Gallery, French Paintings from the Kessler Collection , 1948, no. 7.
London, Wildenstein & Co. Ltd., London, Kessler Collection , 1948, no. 18.
London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), Paintings by XX Century French Masters , March 1958, p. 12, no. 11 (illustrated; dated 1903).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: 64 Paintings , July-September 1966, pp. 25 and 61, no. 9 (illustrated, p. 25).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Paris, Musée national d"art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Henri Matisse: 1904-1917 , September-June 1993, p. 128, no. 45 (illustrated in color, p. 129).
Paris, Musee national d"art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Matisse: In Search of True Painting , March 2012-March 2013, p. 198, no. 8 (illustrated in color).
C. Zervos, Matisse, Paris, 1931, p. 30 (illustrated, fig. 20).
A.H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public , New York, 1951, pp. 59, 86 and 314 (illustrated, p. 314).
G. Diehl, Henri Matisse , Paris, 1958, pp. 22-23.
J. Leymarie, L"Espressionismo e il Fauvismo , Milan, 1967, pp. 243 and 275 (illustrated).
J. Flam, Matisse on Art , New York, 1973, pp. 11 and 24 (illustrated, fig. 12).
A. Izerghina, Henri Matisse: Paintings and Sculptures in Soviet Museums , Leningrad, 1978, p. 133 (illustrated).
C.C. Bock, Henri Matisse and Neo-Impressionism: 1898-1908 , Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981, pp. 38 and 63.
P. Schneider, M. Carrà and X. Deryng, Tout l" œ uvre peint de Matisse: 1904-1928 , Paris, 1982, p. 86, no. 31 (illustrated).
J. Rewald, The John Hay Whitney Collection , exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, p. 119.
J. Flam, Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869-1918 , Paris, 1986, pp. 110 and 120 (illustrated, p. 110, fig. 92).
J. Rewald, Studies in Post-Impressionism , New York, 1986, pp. 261-262 and 289 (illustrated, p. 262, fig. 60).
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Matisse , Paris, 1995, p. 378, no. 54 (illustrated, p. 379).
S. Monneret, Matisse: His Life and Complete Works , New York, 1995, p. 88, no. 33 (illustrated).
H. Spurling, Unknown Matisse , New York, 1998, pp. 283-284.
J.P. Monery, Henri Matisse: Emerveillement pour le Sud , exh. cat., Musée de Saint Tropez, 2004, pp. 34 and 37.
M. Korn, Collecting Paintings by Matisse and by Picasso , New York, 2004, p. 123.
R. Labrusse and J. Munck, Matisse-Derain: La vérité du fauvisme , Paris, 2005, pp. 18, 92, 200 and 323 (illustrated, p. 18, pl. 10).
HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Nature more au purro, I
signed "Henri Matisse" (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 ½ x 28 7/8 in. (60.4 x 73.3 cm.)
Painted in Saint-Tropez in 1904
