Original Foldout Matisse Lithograph (1958) after Décoration

Description: Coloured lithograph after the original cut-paper maquettes by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) from Verve Vol. IX No. 35/36, ‘The Last Works of Henri Matisse’. Printed by the Mourlot Studio, Paris, under the supervision of Matisse and published by Tériade shortly after his death in 1958 in a limited edition. Sheet size: 96.5cm x 35.5cm / 38” x 14” Condition: Very good (natural folds since it is a ‘triple’ page) Sold unframed, photographed against white foam board Certificate of authenticity available upon request. More photographs available upon request. Henri Matisse Lithographs Following illness in 1941, Matisse increasingly began to devote his efforts to his newly invented method of composition, cut-paper collages (“cut-outs”), which became the focus of his work until his death in 1954. Matisse would use scissors to cut from sheets of paper painted in different colours by his assistants, forming shapes which he would then combine to create striking compositions. Following the publication of “Jazz” in 1947, a series of stencil prints after cut-outs inspired by the circus, Matisse, over the following five years, would go on to create increasingly ambitious and elaborate cut-outs including perhaps his most identifiable work, the “Blue Nudes” (1950-52). In the final year of his life he oversaw the production of 39 colour lithographs, some of which included a printed signature signed in the original plate, to be printed at the Mourlot Studio, Paris for a limited edition of Verve which was completed and published after his death in 1958, from which these lithographs originate. These are the only lithographs after these cut-outs produced under the direction of Matisse.

Price: 300 GBP

Location: Richmond

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