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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
HENRI MATISSE Étude pour la Nappe Liturgique de la Chapelle de Vence I.
Aquatint, 1949. 315x251 mm; 12 3/8x9 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 10/25 in pencil, lower right. A superb impression of this extremely scarce print.
We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years.
Matisse's study for the altar cloth of the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary), often referred to as the Matisse Chapel or the Vence Chapel, in the south of France, which was built according to his designs from 1949 to 1951. This was Matisse's last project and is considered among his artistic masterpieces. Duthuit 812.
