Lot 17
17
HENRI MATISSE

Details
HENRI MATISSE

Vue d'Antibes

signed bottom right Henri Matisse--oil on canvas
19¾ x 24 in. (50 x 61 cm.)

Painted circa 1925
Provenance
Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin
The Redfern Gallery, London
Royan Middleton, Aberdeen
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York
Alexander Rosenberg, New York; sale, Christie's, New York, October 18, 1977, lot 43 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Herald Exhibition, 1939, no. 66
London, The Lefevre Gallery, XIX and XX Century French Paintings and Drawings, Nov.-Dec., 1966, no. 4

Lot Essay

From 1921 until 1938 Matisse lived at 1 place Charles-Félix, an eighteenth century building in Nice from whose windows he could see not only all of Nice but to Cannes and Cap d'Antibes. Although he was mostly preoccupied with painting interiors he ventured out to record the unique perspectives the shimmering light of the Cote d'Azur.