Sep 24, 2009 - Sale 2187

Sale 2187 - Lot 539

Unsold
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
HENRI MATISSE
Apparition No. 1.

Etching, 1932. 330x250 mm; 13x9 7/8 inches (sheet), full margins. Plate III refusée for Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé. Signed and inscribed "planche refusée" in pencil, lower center. A very good impression of this scarce print.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Cone Collection, has signed and annotated impressions of 30 planches refusées, acquired in 1932 by Etta Cone along with other archival materials related to this work. Duthuit Books 5.