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Lot Essay
Wanda de Guébriant has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
The present drawing of a pomegranate was executed by Matisse for Verve, the French art periodical founded by publisher Estafrios Tériade in 1937. The magazine, a quarterly review of arts and letters, was lavish in design and challenging in content. Thirty-eight issues of the magazine were published in total between the years of 1939 and 1960. Tériade featured a veritable promenade of covers and interior art by well-known modern artists of the 20th century--reproductions of works by Marc Chagall, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Matisse, among others, graced the pages of his esteemed publication.
Although the present work is signed 1949, the year it was given to Tériade for publication in Verve, it was actually drawn in 1942.
Please note that this work has been requested for the exhibition Henri Matisse--Vence: L'espace d'un atelier, Nature morte aux grenades to be held at the Musée Matisse in Nice from July-September 2007.
The present drawing of a pomegranate was executed by Matisse for Verve, the French art periodical founded by publisher Estafrios Tériade in 1937. The magazine, a quarterly review of arts and letters, was lavish in design and challenging in content. Thirty-eight issues of the magazine were published in total between the years of 1939 and 1960. Tériade featured a veritable promenade of covers and interior art by well-known modern artists of the 20th century--reproductions of works by Marc Chagall, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Matisse, among others, graced the pages of his esteemed publication.
Although the present work is signed 1949, the year it was given to Tériade for publication in Verve, it was actually drawn in 1942.
Please note that this work has been requested for the exhibition Henri Matisse--Vence: L'espace d'un atelier, Nature morte aux grenades to be held at the Musée Matisse in Nice from July-September 2007.