"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. 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 2020Exhibited
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.
Ο129
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.
Estimate
$180,000 - 250,000
Sold for $252,000
John McCord
Head of Day Sale, Morning Session
New York
+1 212 940 1261
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session
New York Auction 24 June 2021
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