Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
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Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Femme sur un fauteuil - Fleurs sur la table, ou les oeillets

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Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Femme sur un fauteuil - Fleurs sur la table, ou les oeillets
signed 'Henri Matisse' (lower left)
oil on canvas
22 x 17 3/8in. (55.8 x 44.2cm.)
Painted in 1920
Provenance
Jos Hessel, Paris.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (no. 23710), by whom acquired from the above on 7 December 1923.
M. Turner, Paris by whom acquired from the above on 26 February 1924 for 28,000 Fr.
Anonymous sale, Hotel Droûot, Paris, 5 December 1932, lot 41.
Mrs. Hirsh, Paris.
Hillmann Collection, New York.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York from whom acquired by the family of the present owner in 1959.
Literature
A. Barnes and de Mazia, The Art of Henri Matisse, New York, 1933, pp.50-51, 92-93, 144 & 166 (illustrated p.441, no. 115).
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Matisse, Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol.II, Paris, 1995, no. 387 (illustrated p.867).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Henri Matisse, June- July 1931, p.29, no. 68 (installation photograph illustrated below).
Special notice
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