Mar 05, 2015 - Sale 2375

Sale 2375 - Lot 388

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300,000 - $ 500,000
HENRI MATISSE
Tête de jeune fille.

Brush and black ink on cream wove paper, 1950. 520x400 mm; 20 1/2x15 3/4 inches. Signed and dated "Mai 50" in ink, lower left recto.

Ex-collection Mme. Lang, Paris; her estate sale Musée Galliéra, Paris, March 4, 1972, lot 36; Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris; O`Hana Gallery, London; sold Sotheby´s, Johannesburg, March 4, 1975, lot 31; acquired there by private collection, United States, 1975-2014; thence by descent.

Exhibited : O`Hana Gallery, London, "Summer Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," May-September 1972, number 50.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Wanda de Guébriant, Paris, March 15, 2014.