Sep 21, 2021 - Sale 2579

Sale 2579 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

ALBERT EUGENE GALLATIN (1881-1952)


Henri Matisse, Nice.
Silver print, the image measuring 254x203.2 mm; 10x8 inches, the sheet 406.4x330.2 mm; 16x13 inches, with Gallatin's signature, location Nice, and date, in ink, on mount recto, and the sitter's credit, in pencil, on verso. 1932.

Provenance: Artist's estate.

Gallatin was an important critic, art collector and painter. He made frequent trips to Paris where he visited and purchased work from iconic avant-garde artists of the period, including Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne. He exhibited his works publicly in New York, eventually opening NYU's Gallery of Living Art (1927-1942), which was the first institution in the United States to exhibit works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Fernand Léger (1881-1955), Joan Miró (1893-1983) and their avant-garde contemporaries.