Details
HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Etudes de boucs (recto); Feuilles (verso)
pencil on paper (recto); pen and blue ink and pencil on paper (verso)
1118 x 15 in. (28.2 x 38.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1943
Provenance
Pierre Matisse, New York.
Pierre-Noël Matisse, Paris (by descent from the above).
By descent from the above to the late owner.
FURTHER DETAILS
Georges Matisse has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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The recto of the present work is a study for a linogravure in Matisse’s 1944 illustrated book Henry de Montherlant, Pasiphaé, a 1981 edition of which is included in the present sale, as lot 17. The verso of the present work is a study for the decorative illustrations of the text pages of the aforementioned book.

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