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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 8, 2018 | Phillips | London | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 9 | $****** - ****** | Nu allongé I (Aurore) |
sculpture
34.3 x 50.2 x 28.6 cm (13.5 x 19.76 x 11.26 in)
patinated bronze
signed, numbered ‘Henri Matisse 3/10’ and stamped with the foundry mark ‘Bingen-Costenoble, fondeur Paris’ on the base
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (on consignment from Henri Matisse from 16 January 1912)
Montross Gallery, New York
Private Collection, France
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner circa 1950 and thence by descent
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Tableaux du Maroc et Sculptures, 14 - 19 April 1913, no. 20
New York, Montross Gallery, Henri Matisse, 20 January - 27 February 1915, no. 66
New York Sun, article of 24 January 1915 (present cast illustrated)
Pierre Courthion, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1934, pl. 58, p. 58 (another cast illustrated)
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse, his Art and his Public, New York, 1951, pp. 94, 100, 140, 179, 193, 205 and 217 (another cast illustrated, p. 337)
Clement Greenberg, Matisse, New York, 1953, pl. 32, n. p. (another cast illustrated)
Jean Leymarie, Herbert Read and William Lieberman, Henri Matisse, 1966, no. 109, p. 129 (another cast illustrated, p. 128)
Albert E. Elsen, 'The Sculpture of Matisse, Part I: A New Expressiveness in Sculpture', Art Forum, September 1968, vol. VII, p. 21
Albert E. Elsen, 'The Sculpture of Matisse Part II: Old Problems and New Possibilities', Art Forum, October 1968, vol. VII, pp. 22 and 24-26 (another cast illustrated, p. 25)
Herbert Read, 'Le sculpteur', Hommage a‘ Henri Matisse, numéro special du XXe siècle, Paris, 1970, pp. 122 -123 (another cast illustrated)
Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, figs. 89-91, pp. 71-77 and 105 (another cast illustrated, pp. 73-75)
Lawrence Gowing, Matisse, London, 1979, no. 52, pp. 74-77 (another cast illustrated, p. 71)
Pierre Schneider, Massimo Carrà and Xavier Derying, Tout L’Oeuvre Peint de Matisse, 1904-1928, Paris, 1982, no. S3, p. 111 (another cast illustrated)
Pierre Schneider, Matisse, New York, 1984, pp. 340, 348-349, 392, 394, 399, 416, 420, 431, 489, 493, 524, 536, 541, 544-545, 557, 562, and 566-567 (another cast illustrated, p. 546)
Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Henri Matisse chez Bernheim Jeune, vol 2, Poitiers, 1995, p. 1411 (present cast illustrated)
Claude Duthuit, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 30, no. 129, p. 74 (present cast listed, p. 74 and another cast illustrated, p. 75)
Pierre Daix, Picasso et Matisse revisités, Neuchâtel, 2002, p. 62
Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2007, no. 44 and 45, pp. 152 – 156, 269 (another cast illustrated and exhibited)
