Henri Matisse - Femmes et Singes, 1958 - Lithograph on paper, printed on double page, after Henri Matisse gouaches découpées
Femmes et Singes, 1958
Lithograph on paper, printed on double page, after Henri Matisse gouaches découpées
Dimensions:
+ Size of the sheet: 35,6 x 53,3 cm / 14 x 21 in.
In overall good condition, with some minor mounting pinholes on the spine. Folded as published. FEMMES ET SINGES printed on the back as issued.
Issued from Verve (vol. IX, n 35-36), July 1958, Paris, under the title Dernieres Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-1954.
These works have been realized by the artist with papers colored in gouache, cut with scissors, and pasted. They are shown here with drawings executed at the same time or during the preceding period. Matisse composed the cover specially for this volume. These lithographic plates were printed during the year 1954 under his direction.
The printing of the lithographs in color by Mourlot Freres, and the photogravure reproductions / typography by the master printers Draeger Freres, were completed in Paris on the 28th day of July 1958.
Dimensions :
- Height : 35.6 cm
- Width : 53.3 cm
Henri Matisse :
(1869-1954) is a french painter, draftsman, engraver and scuptor born in Cateau-Cambrésis in 1869. He was the leading member of fauvism. He started to become interested in impressionist painting which he discovered in 1897 at The musée du Luxembourg (Luxemboug Museum). Since 1900, Matisse worked at The Grande Chaumière Academy under the direction of Antoine Bourdelle and visited Eugène Carrière' workshop. He met André Derain and Jean Puy. He exhibited at The Salon des Indépendants (1901) and participated to the first edition of The Salon d'automne (1903). He exhibited in 1904 at Ambroise Vollard and participated to The Salon des Indépendants the following year. During the summer 1905, he stayed in Collioure with Derain. At The Salon d'Automne of 1905, the display of his works with paintings by Albert Marquet, Vlaminck, Derain and Kees van Dongen caused scandal because of the pure and violent colors applied in solid areas on their canvas. The critic Louis Vauxcelles compares the place to a « cage aux fauves » (wild animals' cage) which coined the movement as "fauvism". The artist made several great exhibitions through the world : Moscow, Berlin, Munich, London or New York... In 1952 the Matisse Museum in Cateau-Cambrésis was inaugurated. The artist died two years later in Nice.
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