Femme assise (Michaela)

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Femme assise (Michaela) - Matisse, Henri

Femme assise (Michaela)

Executed in Nice, May 1943

Charcoal and estompe on paper
19 x 15 inches (48 x 38 cm)
Signed H. Matisse and dated mai ’43 (lower left)

The authenticity has been confirmed by Wanda de Guébriant (original certificate by M.G. Duthuit!!)

Provenance

Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris
Acquired by the above by the previous owner

Literature

Lydia Delectorskaya, Henri Matisse…..Contre vents et marées…
Peintures et livres illustrés de 1939 a 1943, Paris 1996,
illustrated page 537