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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 385 | $****** - ****** | TIREUR D'ÉPINE |
sculpture
18.7 cm (7.36 in)
bronze
inscribed HM., numbered 8 and with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue
Pelle Börjesson, Gothenburg
Private Collection, Sweden (sale: Sotheby's, London, 6th May 1959, lot 142)
Private Collection (purchased at the above sale)
Private Collection, London (sale: Sotheby's, London, 19th June 1963, lot 43)
G. Wilkes, London (purchased at the above sale; sale: Sotheby's, London, 4th December 1985, lot 156)
Waddington Galleries, London (purchased at the above sale)
Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above in the late 1980s; sale: Sotheby's, London, 20th June 2012, lot 186)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada; Oslo, Kunsternes Hus & Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Henri Matisse, Skulpturer, Malerier, Farveklip, 1953-54, no. 23, illustrated in the catalogue
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Matisse. Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings, 1955, no. 17
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Local Heritage, 1970, no. 41
Alfred H. Barr, Matisse: His Art and His Public, New York, 1951, n.n., pp. 99 & 100
Henri Matisse, Das plastische Werk (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, 1959, no. 23, illustration of another cast p. 10
Henri Matisse, Sculpture (exhibition catalogue), Waddington Galleries, London, 1969, no. 6, illustration of another cast n.p.
Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1971, n.n., illustrations of another cast pls. 77 & 78
Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse: A Novel, London, 1972, vol. II, illustration of another cast pl. 135
Henri Matisse, Dessins et sculpture (exhibition catalogue), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1975, no. 185, illustration of another cast p. 201
Jack Flam, Matisse, The Man and His Art, London, 1986, no. 176, illustration of another cast p. 183
Claude Duthuit & Wanda de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 26, present cast listed p. 68, illustration of another cast p. 67
Matisse-Derain, Collioure 1905, un été fauve (exhibition catalogue), Musée Départemental d'Art Moderne, Céret & Musée Départemental Matisse, Cateau-Cambrésis, 2005-2006, no. 168, illustrations of another cast pp. 44 & 222
Matisse, Painter as Sculptor (exhibition catalogue), The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco & The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 2007-2008, no. 25, colour illustration of another cast p. 129
inscribed HM., numbered 8 and with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue
bronze
height: 18.7cm., 7 1/4 in.
Conceived in 1906 and cast in bronze by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris between 1931 and 1958 in a numbered edition of 10. This work cast in 1951.
