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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection Source

10 Lot

Henri Matisse

French, 1869–1954

Woman before an Aquarium

Date: 1921–23
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 81.2 × 100.2 cm (31 15/16 × 39 7/16 in.)
Inscription: Signed lower right
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Estimate £11,000,000 – 16,000,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Evening Sale, 3 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, Nice
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, solo exhibition, 1924

Literature

Recorded in the artist's studio inventory

Condition

Unlined. Stable throughout, with the thinly brushed grounds intact.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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