Portrait du peintre Pallady

細節

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Portrait du peintre Pallady
signed and dated 'Henri Matisse août 39' (lower left)
charcoal on paper
24 x 16 in. (61 x 40.6 cm.)
Drawn in August 1939

來源

Pierre Matisse, New York (by descent from the artist).
By descent from the above to the late owner.

出版

L. Delectorskaya, Henri Matisse: Contre vents et marées, Peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943, Paris, 1996, p. 42 (illustrated).

拍品專文

Wanda de Guébriant has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Matisse spent the summer of 1939 in Paris, where he produced portraits of various artist friends. He was particularly drawn to the distinguished and striking appearance of the Romanian painter Theodor Pallady, the sitter in the present work.

(fig. 1) Photograph of Henri Matisse in a studio in Paris with studies of Pallady, 1939.