Henri Matisse - Evening Editions New York Wednesday, October 26, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Claude Duthuit I; Colette de Ginestetand Catherine Pouillon 633

  • Catalogue Essay

    In all ways Matisse’s life seems to have been calm and regularly ordered during the 1920’s. He was now highly successful on an economic as well as artistic level, a great asset to his principal dealers Bernheim-Jeune, with whom he had made his fourth three-year contract latein 1920 at increased prices. His paintings of the years 1920-1925 appear to be perfect expressions of a serene, industrious and uneventful life. Girls looking out of the window or playing the piano or violin in the apartment at Nice, or girls costumed as odalisques in oriental pantaloons and embroidered jackets, or nude, standing before patterned textiles or tiled screens, lolling on rug-strewn divans; still lives of fruit and flowers, richly furnished interiors in which a dozen different colors, textures and patterned surfaces are magically harmonized in a hedonistic, sensual and charming art with no challenging or difficult moments—except for the painter.
    Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Matisse – His Art and His Public, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951, p 198.

    See lot 4 for a collaboration by Jacques Villon with Marcel Duchamp.

  • 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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Odalisque sur la Terrasse

1922-23
Etching, aquatint and roulette in colors by Jacques Villon, on wove paper, with margins,
I. 18 7/8 x 23 5/8 in. (47.9 x 60 cm);
S. 22 x 26 3/8 in. (55.9 x 67 cm)

signed by Matisse in ink and Villon in pencil, and numbered 28/200 in ink (there were also 10 artist's proofs and an edition of 21 in black), published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, pale light-, mat and time staining, surface soiling, a few areas of minor restoration and staining on the reverse, otherwise in good condition, framed.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $21,250

Evening Editions

26 October 2011
New York