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HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Lot 25 Fields of Vision: The Private Collection of Artists Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason

HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

Vase de fleurs

Closed18 May 2021

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HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Vase de fleurs
signed and dated 'Henri Matisse 41' (lower left)
pen and India ink on paper
20 3⁄4 x 16 in. (52.6 x 40.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1941.

Washburn Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owners, February 1983

Specialist note

Georges Matisse has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

The present work hung in Emily Mason's New York City studio. Like Henri Matisse, in her own artwork Mason refrained from illustrative linework to instead “suggest mass through line.”