Henri Matisse - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Thursday, June 24, 2021 | Phillips
  • "What interested me was the rapport that my contemplation created between the objects I was looking at... And I had to invent something that would render the equivalent of my sensation—a kind of communion of feeling between the objects placed in front of me."
    —Henri Matisse

     

    Vincent van Gogh, Roses and Anemones, June 1890, Musee d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Photo: Adrien Didierjean.
    Vincent van Gogh, Roses and Anemones, June 1890, Musee d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Photo: Adrien Didierjean.
    • Provenance

      Family of the Artist
      Lumley Cazalet Ltd., London
      The Donald Marron Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1992)
      Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2020

    • Exhibited

      East Hampton, Pace Gallery, Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection: A co-presentation by Acquavella Galleries, Gagosian, and Pace, August 12–20, 2020

    • Artist Biography

      Henri Matisse

      French • 1869 - 1954

      The leading figure of the Fauvist movement at the turn of the 20th century, Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the giant of modern art alongside friend and rival Pablo Picasso. Working as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor for over five decades, he radically challenged traditional conventions in art by experimenting with vivid colors, flat shapes and distilled line. Rather than modeling or shading to lend volume to his pictures, the French artist employed contrasting areas of unmodulated color. Heavily influenced by the art and visual culture of non-Western cultures, his subjects ranged from nudes, dancers, odalisques, still lifes and interior scenes and later evolved into the graphic semi-abstractions of his cut-outs of his late career. 

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Anemones

signed with the artist's initials "HM" lower right
India ink on paper
17 3/8 x 22 1/8 in. (44.1 x 56.2 cm)
Executed in 1946.

Wanda de Guébriant confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$180,000 - 250,000 

Sold for $252,000

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 24 June 2021