Mar 09, 2010 - Sale 2206

Sale 2206 - Lot 451

Price Realized: $ 7,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
HENRI MATISSE
Etude pour la Vierge, visage.

Lithograph on Chine appliqué, 1950-51. 315x225 mm; 12 3/8x8 3/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof (there was no published edition). Signed and inscribed "Essai" in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this extremely scarce print.

Another proof impression sold at Sotheby's, London (Matisse auction), April 1, 2008, lot 77. Duthuit 637.