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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 59A | $****** - ****** | Nu couché III |
sculpture
118.1 cm (46.5 in)
bronze with brown patina
signed with initials, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'HM 10/10 C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the right elbow)
Estate of the artist.
Heinz Berggruen, Paris.
Otto Gerson Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, September 1958).
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Twining, Allentown (acquired from the above, October 1962); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 1 March 1972, lot 14.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
P. Courthion, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1934 (another cast illustrated, pl. LVIII).
A.H. Barr, Jr., Matisse, His Art and His Public, New York, 1951, p. 457 (another cast illustrated; incorrectly titled Reclining Nude II).
G. Diehl, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1954, p. 53 (another cast illustrated; dated 1907).
M. Luzi and M. Carrà, L'Opera di Matisse dalla rivolta 'fauve' all'intimismo 1904-1928, Milan, 1971, p. 108, no. S23 (another cast illustrated, p. 108).
L. Aragon, Henri Matisse: A Novel, Paris, 1972, vol. II, p. 178, no. 143 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, pp. 155-159, nos. 212-214 (model version and another cast illustrated).
P. Schneider, Matisse, London, 1984, p. 557 (another cast illustrated).
E.-G. Güse, ed., Henri Matisse: Drawings and Sculpture, Munich, 1991, no. 115 (another cast illustrated).
C. Duthuit, Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, pp. 204-206, no. 71 (other casts illustrated, pp. 205 and 207).
signed with initials, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'HM 10/10 C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the right elbow)
bronze with brown patina
Length: 18 ¼ in. (46.5 cm.)
Conceived in Nice in 1929 and cast in 1954
