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Lot 345
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Paysage suisse (Route de Chézières à Villars)
Closed5 February 2009
Price Realised
GBP 145,250
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Specialist note
Madame Wanda de Guébriant has confirmed the authenticity of this painting.
The present work belongs to a series of small mountain landscapes Matisse executed in the spring of 1901 while convalescing in Villars-sur-Ollon in the foothills of the Alps. These 'cartes postales' demonstrate the artist's increasing rejection of representational art that by 1905 would culminate in the masterpieces of his fauve style. Later that year, he would exhibit his work for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants, where Marquet would say that of all the artists represented, only he and Matisse used pure colour (G. Duthuit, Les Fauves, Geneva, 1949, p. 60).
The present work belongs to a series of small mountain landscapes Matisse executed in the spring of 1901 while convalescing in Villars-sur-Ollon in the foothills of the Alps. These 'cartes postales' demonstrate the artist's increasing rejection of representational art that by 1905 would culminate in the masterpieces of his fauve style. Later that year, he would exhibit his work for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants, where Marquet would say that of all the artists represented, only he and Matisse used pure colour (G. Duthuit, Les Fauves, Geneva, 1949, p. 60).