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Petite tête au peigne
Details
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Petite tête au peigne
signed with initials and numbered 'HM. 8/10' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 3 ½ in. (9 cm.)
Conceived in Collioure in 1907; this bronze version cast in 1922
Petite tête au peigne
signed with initials and numbered 'HM. 8/10' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 3 ½ in. (9 cm.)
Conceived in Collioure in 1907; this bronze version cast in 1922
Provenance
Anatole de Monzie, Paris (1926).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 December 2002, lot 122.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 December 2002, lot 122.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
A.E. Elsen, The Sculpture of Matisse, New York, 1972, p. 116 (another cast illustrated, p. 120, fig. 160; titled Small Head).
P. Schneider, Matisse, London, 1984, p. 547 (another cast illustrated; titled Little Head (Gilded Head)).
C. Duthuit, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, pp. 82 and 84 (another cast illustrated, pp. 82-83 and 85).
E. McBreen, Matisse's Sculpture, The Pinup and the Primitive, New Haven, 2014, p. 83 (another cast illustrated, figs. 77-78).
P. Schneider, Matisse, London, 1984, p. 547 (another cast illustrated; titled Little Head (Gilded Head)).
C. Duthuit, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, pp. 82 and 84 (another cast illustrated, pp. 82-83 and 85).
E. McBreen, Matisse's Sculpture, The Pinup and the Primitive, New Haven, 2014, p. 83 (another cast illustrated, figs. 77-78).
Exhibited
Institute Valencià d'Art Moderne, Henri Matisse, October 2003-January 2004, pp. 158-159 (illustrated).
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