Nov 02, 2021 - Sale 2585

Sale 2585 - Lot 386

Price Realized: $ 4,420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
HENRI MATISSE
Trois Têtes; À l'amitié (Masques d'Apollinaire, Matisse et Rouveyre).

Aquatint, 1951-52. 436x348 mm; 17 1/4x13 3/4 inches, full margins. One of only two artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 25 (all of which have the artist's initials ink stamp). With the "Essai" and artist's initials ink stamps, lower margin. A superb impression of this extremely scarce aquatint.

Matisse created this work for potential inclusion in the volume Apollinaire by André Rouveyre, Paris, 1952, but it was not used. Duthuit 825.