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Auction archive: Lot number 133

H. MATISSE, IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF 29 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS CONTAINING NINE DRAWINGS, TANGIERS, 1912

Estimate
£80,000 - £100,000
ca. US$107,320 - US$134,150
Price realised:
£93,750
ca. US$125,766
Auction archive: Lot number 133

H. MATISSE, IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF 29 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS CONTAINING NINE DRAWINGS, TANGIERS, 1912

Estimate
£80,000 - £100,000
ca. US$107,320 - US$134,150
Price realised:
£93,750
ca. US$125,766
Beschreibung:

in which he gives Amélie reports of work in progress, including Paysage vu d’une fenêtre and others from the "Moroccan Triptych", discussing his patrons and dealers, Shchukin, Morozov, Sembat, Kritchevsky and Bertheim, which painting is for which potential purchaser, reporting Marcel Sembat’s purchase of "une marocaine toile de 5 pour 1000f”, and the sale by Bernheim of "la Zora en jaune 6000f à un anglais", complaining about the difficulty of securing the services of models in Tangiers, helped by Hamido ("un arabe qui à été employé à l’hotel comme portier"), the vicissitudes experienced during their various sittings and the weather, discussing his fellow artists and acquaintances, including Olga Meerson, reporting meetings with and letters from Marquet, Roger Fry Tavarès, Terrus, Camoin, Druet, Schroeter and others, frequently urging Amélie to join him in Tangiers, his children Marguerite, Jean and Pierre, "...j’ai en train une toile qui va bien c’est la négresse [“Fatma”] c’est pour Bernheim ou Schoukin…en somme ici depuis 3 semaines de séjour j’ai fait un bon paysage de 50 [centimètres] (Morosoff) un autre que je termine en chambre pour le même...et une mauresque pour Stsch[oukin] (bonne) et une autre en train qui va bien et de nombreux dessins. Presque tous les jours le matin en sortant d’une séance à midi je faisais 2 ou 3 croquis...L’après midi j’ai commencé un des paysage de Morosoff. C’est ma fenêtre ouverte, un peu les dessins que tu a vu déjà. J’ai deux bouquets placés sur une fenêtre--un vert de feuilles de géranium odorant citronelle… avec des petts chrysanthèmes blancs…" c.70 pages, 4to and 8vo, containing fifteen ink sketches in all, eleven connected with known paintings and four for other scenes or objects, mainly Tangiers, October-November 1912 (16 October-5 November 1912, where dated), many undated ("lundi 7h½ soir", "mardi 8h matin", etc), with one autograph copy of a letter from 26 February 1912, one evidently from February 1913, and 1 each from Toulouse and Marseilles, five letters incomplete or torn, lacking endings and signatures

Auction archive: Lot number 133
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

in which he gives Amélie reports of work in progress, including Paysage vu d’une fenêtre and others from the "Moroccan Triptych", discussing his patrons and dealers, Shchukin, Morozov, Sembat, Kritchevsky and Bertheim, which painting is for which potential purchaser, reporting Marcel Sembat’s purchase of "une marocaine toile de 5 pour 1000f”, and the sale by Bernheim of "la Zora en jaune 6000f à un anglais", complaining about the difficulty of securing the services of models in Tangiers, helped by Hamido ("un arabe qui à été employé à l’hotel comme portier"), the vicissitudes experienced during their various sittings and the weather, discussing his fellow artists and acquaintances, including Olga Meerson, reporting meetings with and letters from Marquet, Roger Fry Tavarès, Terrus, Camoin, Druet, Schroeter and others, frequently urging Amélie to join him in Tangiers, his children Marguerite, Jean and Pierre, "...j’ai en train une toile qui va bien c’est la négresse [“Fatma”] c’est pour Bernheim ou Schoukin…en somme ici depuis 3 semaines de séjour j’ai fait un bon paysage de 50 [centimètres] (Morosoff) un autre que je termine en chambre pour le même...et une mauresque pour Stsch[oukin] (bonne) et une autre en train qui va bien et de nombreux dessins. Presque tous les jours le matin en sortant d’une séance à midi je faisais 2 ou 3 croquis...L’après midi j’ai commencé un des paysage de Morosoff. C’est ma fenêtre ouverte, un peu les dessins que tu a vu déjà. J’ai deux bouquets placés sur une fenêtre--un vert de feuilles de géranium odorant citronelle… avec des petts chrysanthèmes blancs…" c.70 pages, 4to and 8vo, containing fifteen ink sketches in all, eleven connected with known paintings and four for other scenes or objects, mainly Tangiers, October-November 1912 (16 October-5 November 1912, where dated), many undated ("lundi 7h½ soir", "mardi 8h matin", etc), with one autograph copy of a letter from 26 February 1912, one evidently from February 1913, and 1 each from Toulouse and Marseilles, five letters incomplete or torn, lacking endings and signatures

Auction archive: Lot number 133
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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