Henri Matisse - Evening & Day Editions London Thursday, September 10, 2020 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 10 September 2020

  • Provenance

    Berggruen et Cie, Paris (label verso of frame)

  • Literature

    Claude Duthuit 512

  • 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

Figure endormie aux babouches (Sleeping Figure with Slippers)

1929
Lithograph, on Arches paper, with full margins.
I. 28 x 38 cm (11 x 14 7/8 in.)
S. 45.3 x 55.4 cm (17 7/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
Signed, numbered 4/10 and annotated 'epr-d'artiste' in pencil (an artist's proof, the edition was 50), framed.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠

Sold for £7,500

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 10 September 2020