Sep 20, 2012 - Sale 2286

Sale 2286 - Lot 434

Price Realized: $ 6,960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
HENRI MATISSE
Etudes.

Etching printed in black on grayish cream Chine collé, 1932. 240x140 mm; 9 1/2x5 1/2 inches, full margins. Artist's proof. Signed and inscribed "Etudes" in pencil, lower right. A superb impression of this extremely scarce etching.

Studies for Matisse's illustration designs for Mallarmé's Poésies. There is another impression of this work in the Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art. Duthuit Books p. 33, number 4.