Property of an Eminent Private Collector
Femme à l’ombrelle verte
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Henri Matisse
1869 - 1954
Femme à l’ombrelle verte
signed Henri-Matisse (lower right)
oil on canvasboard
40.8 by 33 cm. 16⅛ by 13 in.
Executed in Nice in 1919.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on 20 March 1919)
Mancini (acquired from the above on 23 May 1919)
Georges Renand, Paris (acquired by 1949)
Pierre Berès, Paris (acquired from the above in 1962)
Sotheby’s, London, 30 November 1993, lot 13 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above sale)
Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 2015, lot 29 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1986, p. 155, illustrated in colour in a photograph of Pierre Berès’s apartment
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. II, Paris, 1995, no. 280, p. 736, illustrated
Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Henri Matisse, 1949, no. 69
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Chefs-d’œuvre de Matisse, 1958, no. 17 (titled L’ombrelle verte. Nice and dated 1921)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Henri Matisse, The Early Years in Nice, 1916-1930, 1986-87, no. 52, pl. 75, illustrated in colour (titled Femme assise au balcon, ombrelle verte, bas violets)
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