Inv. n°: CL337

Buste de femme accoudée

Executed in December 1939, signed and inscribed 1940 The model, Micheline Payot, wears a silk Ottoman tunic

h. 61 x w. 41 cm

1939

Pen and ink on paper

Provenance

  • Private collection, France
  • Sale Me Loudmer, Palais Galliera, Paris, 3rd December 1972, lot 142
  • Galerie Taménaga, Tokyo, until 1980s
  • Acquired at Sotheby's, Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale, London, 2018, lot 125, sale L18004

Publications

  • L. Delectorskaya, Henri Matisse, Contre vents et marées, Peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943, Nice, 1996, illustrated p. 74
  • Sotheby's, Impressionist & Modern Art, 2018, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-l18004/lot.125.html

Exhibitions

  • Coup de Crayon, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, 20th January 2023 — 2nd April 2023

© Succession H. Matisse

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