Henri MATISSE (1869-1954) - "Carribbean Woman" from Caribbean Poetry, Lithograph
"Caribbean Woman" from Carribeean Poetry - Luxury Edition, 1972
Sanguine full-page lithograph on Japanese nacred luxury paper
38 x 28,7 cm
One of the 12 rare portraits edited at 50 non-numbered copies, joint to the 28 original portraits printed by Mourlot Paris. The original edition was of 225 on Arches Vellum paper, portraits are of variable sizes.
The "Caribean Poetry" works are poetry works of J.A. Nau illustrating their friendship based on love of the Martinique and the Caribbean. The drawings and lithographic stones were made from 1945 to 1946 and edited in 1972.
Catalogue raisonné Duthuit of illustrated books N°37.
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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