Lot n° 649
Estimation :
3000 - 5000
EUR
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Result
: 6 000EUR
Henri MATISSE (1869-1954) - Lot 649
Henri MATISSE (1869-1954)
Study for the Virgin "veiled head" (for the chapel in Vence). 1950/1951
Lithograph on china paper applied to vellum
Papier de chine : H. 32 cm - L. 24,4 cm - Feuille : H. 49 cm - L. 37,6 cm AC
Artist's proof signed and numbered 8/15, dedicated to Sister Claire of the Avignon Red Cross dispensary, from her pupil Denise Arokas, dated 25/11 51
Reference: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé de H. Matisse by Marguerite Duthuit- Matisse et Claude Duthuit, Paris 1983. Cf. Duthuit-Matisse 641
Preservation: freckle or stain on the Virgin's nose and other tiny pitting in the lower right-hand corner. Yellowed margins with some foxing and a handling mark in the lower margin. In the dedication, the "S" for "Arokas" appears to have been added with a different pencil.
Denise Arokas was engaged between 1951 and 1952 to be the lady-in-waiting of the painter Matisse, who was 81 at the time. She became one of his last models. In 1953, in contact with the Parisian world, she became a model for the greatest couturiers.
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