Apr 30, 2009 - Sale 2178

Sale 2178 - Lot 398

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
HENRI MATISSE
L'Après-midi d'un faune.

Etching on Chine volant, 1932. 330x250 mm; 13x9 7/8 inches (sheet), full margins. Plate XXI refusée for Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé. Signed and inscribed "planche refusée" in pencil, lower right. 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.