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Description: Henri Matisse 1869-1954 ANEMONES AU MIROIR NOIR Signed Oil on canvas 263/4 by 21 1/4in. 68 by 54cm. Painted in the winter of 1918-19. Provenance Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on March 20, 1919) L'Art Moderne, Paris (acquired from the above on April 29, 1927) Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York The Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C. (by 1927) Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in February 1947) The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York (acquired from the above in 1947 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 16, 1998, lot 32) Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Exhibited Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Oeuvres Recentes d'Henri Matisse, 1919, no. 32 Washington, D.C., The Phillips Memorial Gallery, Leaders of French Art Today, 1927 Washington, D.C., The Phillips Memorial Gallery, Tri-Unit Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1928 New York, The Century Club, 1930 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1930 Rochester Museum of Art, 1930 New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse Retrospective Exhibition, 1931, no. 51 Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1931, no. 23 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1933 Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, French Art of the XIXth and XXth Century, 1941 New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Paintings, 1898-1939, 1943, no. 11 Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery; Cincinnati Art Museum; St. Louis, The City Art Museum; Washington, D.C., French Embassy, French Paintings of the Twentieth Century, 1944-45, no. 41 New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., Reader's Digest Collection, 1963 Tokyo, Palaceside Building, Forty Paintings from The Reader's Digest Collection, 1966, no. 18 New York, Wildenstein & Co., Selections from The Reader's Digest Collection, 1985-86 Paris, Musee Marmottan, Extraits de la Collection du Reader's Digest, 1986 Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916-1930, 1986-87, no. 55 (tit