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Artistic Reverie: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Henri Matisse

Jeune fille à la robe rose

Auction Closed

November 14, 01:23 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Artistic Reverie: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954


Jeune fille à la robe rose

signed Henri Matisse and dated 9/42 (lower left)

oil on canvas

24 by 18 ⅜ in. 61 by 46.5 cm.

Executed in Nice in September 1942.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Georges Matisse.

Galerie René Drouin, Paris, 9-17 February 1945 (consigned by the artist)

Pierre Colle, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Sam Salz, New York (acquired by 1955)

William and Edith Goetz, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above by 1959)

Sotheby’s, New York, 14 October 1970, lot 11 (consigned by the estate of William Goetz)

Private Collection, Paris (acquired at the above sale) 

Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

Acquired from the above in 1981 by the present owner

“De la couleur,” Verve, vol. IV, no. 13, November 1945, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Jeune fille à la robe rose, la fenêtre ouverte et les volets fermés)

Raymond Escholier, Matisse, ce vivant, Paris, 1956, p. 210

Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse: A Novel, New York, 1972, pp. 137 and 179, illustrated (in photograph of the artist’s studio) (titled Girl in a Pink Dress, The Window Open and the Shutters Closed)

Lydia Delectorskaya, Henri Matisse. Contre vents et marées. Peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943, Paris, 1996, p. 407, illustrated in color (titled Jeune fille en rose dans un intérieur and dated 5 October 1942)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée du Luxembourg and Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Matisse: A Second Life, 2005, no. 66, pp. 113-14, illustrated in color (titled Jeune fille en rose dans un interieur and dated October 1942)

Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Color 1909-1954, New York, 2005, p. 387, illustrated (in photograph of the artist’s studio)

Shirley Neilsen Blum, Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View, New York, 2010, pl. 106, pp. 148-49, illustrated in color (titled Young Woman in a Pink Dress, Open Window and Closed Shutters)

Exh. Cat., Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée départemental Matisse, Les dessins au pinceau de Matisse, 2012. p. 19 (titled Jeune fille à la robe rose, la fenêtre ouverte et les volets fermés)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Matisse: Paires et series, Paris, 2012, pp. 225, 227 and 280, illustrated in color (titled Jeune fille en rose dans un intérieur and dated 5 October 1942)

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Goetz, 1959, no. 40, illustrated (titled Jeune Femme en Robe Rose)

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Matisse, 1981, no. 89, p. 113, illustrated in color (titled Woman in a Pink Dress)

Nagoya City Art Museum, Matisse Retrospective, 1991, no. 63, pp. 170-71, illustrated in color (titled Woman in a Pink Dress)