Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
MATISSE, HENRI. Cinquante Dessins. Frontispiece etching on chine collé, Signed in ink, lower right. (Mlle M.M., Duthuit Books 2), 323x250 mm; 12 3/4x9 7/8 inches (sheet), full margins; 50 reproductions with numbered tissue guards. Small folio, original printed grey wrappers, some toning, tiny chip to top edge of rear cover; scattered light foxing; margins of etching lightly toned and with faint spot of foxing; mounted tag from Pierre Matisse Gallery on rear pastedown as well as their dust jacket specially printed for copies of this work sold on their premises, tear to top of rear panel. first limited edition. number 463 of 1000 copies containing the original etching. Paris, 1920