Henri Matisse - Henri Matisse gravant - image-1

Lot 333 D

Henri Matisse - Henri Matisse gravant

Auction 1051 - overview Cologne
29.05.2015, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 11.780 € (incl. premium)

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse gravant
1900 - 1903

Etching (drypoint) on chamois coloured, slightly grained wove paper 15 x 19.9 cm (31 x 39 cm) Framed under glass. Signed and numbered in pen and ink lower right. Proof 13/30. - The paper minimally browned; professionally cleaned.

Important early self portrait of the artist within his graphic oeuvre. It shows Matisse as if in a mirror, working on the copper plate. - Proof from the 4th state on a sheet with wide margins from an edition of 30 copies apart from few state resp. trial proofs. Rare.

Catalogue Raisonné

Duthuit 1 with illus. plate 52 D (4th state)

Literature

Exhib. cat. Fribourg 1982, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Henri Matisse, Gravures et lithographies, cat. no. 1 ("Autoportrait de l'artistegravant"), with illus.