Lot number 165 - Auction 140
'PORTRAIT VON EDGAR ALLAN POE'

HENRI MATISSE 1869 Le Cateau-Cambrésis - 1954 Nizza 'PORTRAIT OF EDGAR ALLAN POE' Plate 26 from 'Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé, Albert Skira et Cie., Lausanne 1932 Etching on Arches, double sheet, with watermark. Sheet size 33 x 25 cm, visible size 32 x 44 cm (f. 48 x 38,5 x 1,5 cm). Verso: Poem 'Hommage'. Illustration to the poem 'Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe'. Slightly browned, light-stained, with adhesive residue on the reverse. Mounted and framed behind glass. Provenance: Ehlen Collection, Bonn.