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Property of an Eminent Private Collector

Henri Matisse

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)