HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) TORSE À L'AIGUIÈRE... Lot 31

HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) TORSE À L'AIGUIÈRE (DUTHUIT 494), 1927 Lithography on china Signed and numbered in pencil '24/50' at the bottom right Bears on the back the stamp of the Henri Marie Petiet collection (L.5031).) Lithograph on China paper; signed and numbered 24/50 with pencil lower right; stamped with the Henri Marie Petiet collection mark on the reverse 47,5 X 33 CM - 18 3/4 X 13 IN. PROVENANCE Collection Henri Marie Petiet, Paris. Sale, Piasa, Collection Petiet, Paris, December 4, 2014, lot 126. Acquired during this sale by the current owner. "The systematic return to lithography in 1922 inaugurated an important production in the grey range. It was then the time of Nice and the Odalisques, which had long been controversial, before the perspective of time confirmed that it was neither a decrease in tension nor a hedonistic languishing under the effect of the Mediterranean mildness, but a deep renewal, a severe discipline in contact with reality.". Jean Guichard-Meili, in Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre gravé établi avec la collaboration de Françoise Garnaud, Claude Duthuit, Paris : 1983, p. XX.