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Henri Matisse(1869-1954)Nu assis à la chemise de tulle
23 June 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £27,750 inc. premium
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Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Nu assis à la chemise de tulle (Duthuit 465)
Lithograph, 1925, on chine laid paper, signed and inscribed 'essai' in pencil, a rare proof aside from the edition of 50 (Duthuit records only one trial proof of this subject), the full sheet with deckle edges at top and below, in good condition, framed
Image 368 x 270mm. (14 1/2 x 10 5/8in.); Sheet 561 x 376mm. (21 3/4 x 14 3/4in.)
Lithograph, 1925, on chine laid paper, signed and inscribed 'essai' in pencil, a rare proof aside from the edition of 50 (Duthuit records only one trial proof of this subject), the full sheet with deckle edges at top and below, in good condition, framed
Image 368 x 270mm. (14 1/2 x 10 5/8in.); Sheet 561 x 376mm. (21 3/4 x 14 3/4in.)
Footnotes
Without voluptuous pleasure, nothing exists
Henri Matisse
Nowadays we associate Matisse with vibrancy and sensuality. No other works exemplifies these qualities better than his 'Odalisques' from the 1920s.
Matisse fled Paris after the First World War and move to sunny Nice where he started depicting exotic-looking women in opulently decorated, interior settings. He met a young ballerina and musician called Henriette Darricarère who was to become her favourite model from 1920 to 1927 and the sitter for his famous Odalisque paintings for this decade. It is said that Matisse ''liked her natural dignity, the graceful way her head sat on her neck and, above all, the fact that her body caught the light like a sculpture''.
In this beautiful lithograph, Henriette is elegantly sitting on a Persian carpet with her naked, curved silhouette resting against a striped wall. The erotic charge of this nude and portrait transcends pure lust, depicting a passion that is not just between two people but between Matisse and the very act of painting and drawing. Matisse keeps the same texture, lavish detail and patterned decorations in these lithographs of Odalisques than in his paintings of the same subject.
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