Henri Matisse - Editions & Works on Paper New York Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 12 February 2025

  • Provenance

    Henri M. Petiet inkstamp on the reverse (Lugt 5031)

  • Literature

    Claude Duthuit 416

  • 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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Henri Matisse

Le repos du modele (The Model Rests) (First State) (D. 416)

1922
Lithograph, on Chine volant paper, with full margins.
I. 8 5/8 x 12 in. (21.9 x 30.5 cm)
S. 12 5/8 x 19 1/2 in. (32.1 x 49.5 cm)
Signed in pencil (one of 85 signed impressions from the planned edition of 100, the second state with a smaller image was 575), published by Galerie des Peintres-Graveurs, Paris, 1925 (with their blindstamp (L. 1057b) and the Edmund Frapier inkstamps 'essai' and ‘first state’ (L. 2921b and 2921c)), unframed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $4,064

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 12 February 2025