Henri Matisse Fauvist Portrait Oil Provenance – August 1, 2019
Oil on board, framed. Featuring a portrait of a reclined woman. Signed Henri Matisse on the lower right corner and inscribed 39. Cutout shows label affixed to verso inscribed THE FINE ART GALLERIES / T. EATON. Co / TITLE OF WORK: Oriental Motive 39 / ARTIST: Henri Matisse (FRENCH, 1869-1954 oil on board 19″ x 23″ / STOCK NUMBER: # 20350 / PRICE: $ / REMARK: Code 650 Stock 15H / 10025-21267.Attributed to Henri Matisse (1869-1954, French). 57 x 47 cm, framed: 77 x 66 cm. PROVENANCE: The Fine Art Galleries (T. Eaton. Company). Private collection (Southern Ontario)
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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the most influential French artists of the 20th century. Matisse’s use of unmodulated color, inventive figuration, and decorative patterns helped redefine many of the formal tenets of painting. “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter,” he once said.
Born Henri-Emile-Benoît Matisse on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France, he took to art relatively late in life after initially pursuing law. First studying painting under Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he quickly adopted the Pointillist ideas espoused by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. With Pointillism as a point of departure, Matisse along with Albert Marquet and Andre Derain, developed a radical method of using pure color to express light, in what became known as Fauvism.
Matisse would return to a style which incorporated both naturalistic and decorative elements, such as his painting Goldfish (1911). In the decades that followed, the artist spent much of his time in the South of France. He also painted models dressed as odalisques and ocean views from his hotel room. Late in his career, while bedridden, Matisse produced a number of cutout paper works, including Blue Nude II (1952). The artist died on November 3, 1954 in Nice, France. In 2018, the artist’s Odalisqque couchee aux magnolias (1923) sold for $80,750,000 at Christie’s, an auction record for Matisse.
Today, his works are held in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery in London, among others.
Auction Overview
Richmond Hill, ON – 423 fresh to market items will be available to the discerning buyers and collectors in 888 Auctions’ August 1 auction featuring the finest in IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS, MODERN ART & ANTIQUES 2019-08-01. Taking place in the afternoon at 2 PM (EST), bidders will be competing against one another over a variety of items on display.
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