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Lot 556
  • 556

Henri Matisse

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri Matisse
  • Double portrait de jeune femme
  • Signed Henri Matisse and dated Juill. 44 (lower left)
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 15 7/8 by 20 1/2 in.
  • 40.3 by 52 cm

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills
Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Company, Ltd, Tokyo
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1975

Exhibited

Kyoto, The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Western Art, 1957

Condition

Executed on cream colored wove paper. Sheet appears to have yellowed very slightly. Some faint staining to extreme top right and left edges and there appears to be a small repair at extreme upper right corner. Work is faintly numbered 30 in pencil at lower right corner and numbered 12V on the verso. Line is very strong. Overall this work is in very good condition.
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