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HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Lot 597 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

Etudes de boucs (recto); Feuilles (verso)

Closed18 May 2024

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HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Etudes de boucs (recto); Feuilles (verso)
pencil on paper (recto); pen and blue ink and pencil on paper (verso)
11 1/8 x 15 in. (28.2 x 38.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1943

Pierre Matisse, New York.
Pierre-Noël Matisse, Paris (by descent from the above).
Jacquelyn Miller Matisse, New York (by descent from the above); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 15 February 2023, lot 18.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The recto of the present work is a study for a linogravure in Matisse’s 1944 illustrated book Henry de Montherlant, Pasiphaé. The verso of the present work is a study for the decorative illustrations of the text pages of the aforementioned book.