Sale 7839
London
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31 March 2010
Price realised
GBP 8,125
Estimate
Henri Matisse Grande Liseuse (D.-M. 437) lithograph, 1923, on wove paper watermarked J PERRIGOT ARCHES and MBM, signed in pencil and inscribed epr. d'artiste, numbered 9/12, an artist's proof aside from the edition of fifty, the full sheet, with deckle edges at left and right, with small, unobtrusive black ink marks just outside the corners of the subject, otherwise in very good condition L. 491 x 390 mm., S. 653 x 508 mm.
Provenance
Walter Pach (1883-1958), New York. Then by descent to the present owners.
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