May 02, 2019 - Sale 2507

Sale 2507 - Lot 281

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HENRI MATISSE
Portrait de Walter Pach.

Etching on Chine collé, 1914. 161x60 mm; 6 3/8x2 3/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 15. Signed and inscribed "tirage à quinze ex. huitième epr—" in pencil, lower right. A very good, dark impression.

Pach (1883-1958) was an American artist and art critic who wrote extensively about modern art and was an early champion of its cause. Along with founders Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, he was instrumental in bringing together the 1913 Armory Show in New York. Duthuit 42.