Explore the Provenance of this artwork, Le Grand Cirque (1968 painting).
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York acquired the painting from the artist shortly after he completed it. The painting was first exhibited in New York in December 1968, and then was kept in Pierre Matisse Gallery’s collection for several years, exhibiting at some of the most important retrospectives of the artist’s work, including the definitive exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1985. In May 1998, the painting was sold to private collection at Sotheby’s, New York.
Royal Academy of Arts Sotheby’s Pierre Matisse Pierre Matisse Gallery