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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 9, 2007 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale | 48 | $****** - ****** | Grand nu accroupi |
sculpture
43 cm (16.93 in)
bronze with brown patina
signed with the initials and numbered 'H.M 5', stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the top of the base)
Pelle Börjesson, Gothenburg.
Lee V. Eastman, New York, by 1984, and thence by descent; his sale, Christie's, New York, 1 November 2005, lot 34.
Private collection, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie’s, New York, 9 May 2007, lot 48.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Edinburgh, City Art Centre, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, August - September 1984, no. 43, p. 147 (another cast illustrated pl. 43; dated '1910'); this exhibition later travelled to London, Hayward Gallery, October 1984 - January 1985; and Leeds, Leeds City Art Gallery, January - March 1985.
H. Maryon, Modern Sculpture: Its Methods and Ideals, London, 1933, p. 162 (another cast illustrated fig. 218, pl. CXVIII; titled 'Figure').
H. Read, A Concise History of Modern Sculpture, London, 1964, no. 29, p. 36 (another cast illustrated; dated '1907').
J. Leymarie, H. Read & W. S. Lieberman, Henri Matisse, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1966, no. 115, p. 131 (another cast illustrated).
M. Luzi & M. Carrà, L'opera di Matisse: dalla rivolta 'fauve' all'intimismo, 1904-1928, Milan, 1971, no. S7, p. 109 (another cast illustrated p. 108).
A. E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, pp. 96-99 (another cast illustrated figs. 123 & 130, pp. 98 & 102).
A. H. Barr, Matisse: His Art and His Public, London, 1975, p. 138.
J. Elderfield, Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1978, no. 42, p. 189 (illustrated).
I. Monod-Fontaine, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, London, 1984, no. 43, pp. 34 & 147 (another cast illustrated fig. 43a, n.p.).
J. Flam, Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869-1918, New York, 1986, p. 315 (another cast illustrated fig. 315, p. 318; dated '1911').
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Matisse, vol. II, Paris, 1995, no. 796, p. 1415 (another cast illustrated).
C. Duthuit & W. de Guébriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 49, pp. 134 & 136 (another cast illustrated pp. 134, 135 & 137).
H. Spurling, Matisse the Master, A Life of Henry Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954, London, 2005, p. 85 (another cast illustrated p. 65).
signed with the initials and numbered 'H.M 5', stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 16 7/8 in. (43 cm.)
Conceived in Issy-les-Molineaux between 1909-1910; this example cast in 1952
