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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2017 | Phillips | New York | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 1 | $****** - ****** | Le Tiaré | |||
Nov 7, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 15 | $****** - ****** | La Tiaré |
sculpture
20.3 x 14 x 19.1 cm (7.99 x 5.51 x 7.52 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
incised with the artist's initials and number "H.M. 4" on the left side; stamped with the foundry mark "C.VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE" on the right side
Galerie Samlaren, Agnes Widlund, Stockholm (acquired in 1954)
Eric Estorick, London
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1960
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Art, Henri Matisse, November 13, 1951 - July 6, 1952, no. 104, p. 11 (another example exhibited)
University of California Los Angeles Art Galleries; The Art Institute of Chicago; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966, January 5 – June 26, 1966, no. 132, pp. 138, 195 (another example exhibited and illustrated, with necklace, p. 138)
Paris, Grand Palais, Henri Matisse: Exposition du Centenaire, April – September, 1970, no. 242, p. 101 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 291)
Berkeley, University Art Museum, Excellence: Art from the University Community, September 1970, no. 493 (present lot exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Pasadena Art Museum; Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, The Sculpture of Matisse, February 24 – November 5, 1972, no. 64, p. 54 (present lot exhibited in Pasadena and Berkeley, another example illustrated, p. 40; with necklace, p. 41)
Paris, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne (no. 226); Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts (no. 218), Henri Matisse: Dessins et sculpture, May 29 - October 26, 1975, p. 242 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Henri Matisse: Sculptor/Painter, May 26 – September 2, 1984, no. 48, p. 129 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Edinburgh, City Art Centre; London, Hayward Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, The Sculpture and Drawings of Henri Matisse, August 3, 1984 – March 24, 1985, no. 64, pls. 64-64b, pp. 40, 148 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 135-37)
Le Cateau Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, Matisse et l'Océanie: Le Voyage à Tahiti, March 28 – June 28, 1998, pp. 110, 185-86 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 111, 185)
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry, January 31 - May 2, 1999, no. 52, pp. 57, 67, 90, 247, 249 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 67)
Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, January 21, 2008 – February 3, 2008, nos. 77-78, pp. 8, 24, 44, 85-86, 272 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 195; with necklace, pp. 196-97)
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, New York, 1951, pp. 185, 217-18 (another example illustrated, p. 461)
Gaston Diehl, Henri Matisse, Paris, 1958, pp. 64, 117 (another example illustrated, with necklace, p. 40)
Giuseppe Marchiori, Matisse, New York, 1967, no. 76, p. 134 (another example illustrated, p. 81)
Herbert Read, “Le sculpteur”, XXe Siècle, numéro special Hommage à Henri Matisse, 1970, p. 125 (another example illustrated, with necklace, p. 126)
Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, L’opera di Matisse, dalla rivolta ‘fauve’ all’intimismo 1904-1928, Milan, 1971, no. S24, p. 109 (another example illustrated p. 108)
Albert E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, nos. 229-230, pp. 76, 170-174 (another example illustrated, p. 171)
John Elderfield, Henri Matisse: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, p. 108 (another example illustrated, p. 109)
Pierre Schneider, Matisse, Paris, 1984, pp. 536, 548, 561
Nicholas Watkins, Matisse, Oxford, 1984, no. 157, p. 235 (another example illustrated, with necklace, p. 171)
John Elderfield, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992, p. 297 (another example illustrated)
Claude Duthuit, Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 78, pp. 220, 336, 346, 366-67, 387 (another example illustrated, pp. 218-19, 221)
Jack Flam, Matisse in the Cone Collection: The Poetics of Vision, Baltimore, 2001, pl. 37, pp. 84, 87 (another example illustrated, p. 85)
