Lot Essay
Charles Thorndike was an artist and friend of Matisse, who owned a villa on the far side of the old port in Nice.
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Nu au coussin bleu
Details
HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Nu au coussin bleu
lithograph, 1924, on Arches laid paper, watermark Canson & Montgolfier, signed and dedicated à Ch. Thorndike/ cordialement/ Henri Matisse, inscribed Etat, one of two épreuves d'état aside from the edition of fifty (there were also five épreuves d'essai and ten épreuves d'artiste), probably the full sheet, the paper toned, some pale scattered foxing, hinged with paper tape along the sheet edges recto, framed
Image 610 x 480 mm., Sheet 635 x 480 mm.
Nu au coussin bleu
lithograph, 1924, on Arches laid paper, watermark Canson & Montgolfier, signed and dedicated à Ch. Thorndike/ cordialement/ Henri Matisse, inscribed Etat, one of two épreuves d'état aside from the edition of fifty (there were also five épreuves d'essai and ten épreuves d'artiste), probably the full sheet, the paper toned, some pale scattered foxing, hinged with paper tape along the sheet edges recto, framed
Image 610 x 480 mm., Sheet 635 x 480 mm.
Provenance
Charles Hall Thorndike (1875-1935), Pennsylvania & Nice, a gift from the artist.
Literature
Duthuit-Matisse 442
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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