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Author: Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Title: Nudo Blu II (1952)
Size: 80 x 60 cm
Offset print made on thick 240g, high-quality paper. Displays a vivid and sharp image. 
Copyright:  Succession H. Matisse, SIAE 2003 -  Printed in Italy.
New to frame. 
Shipping in a rigid tube via certified express mail.
It is possible to collect more than one object, from the same auction, in the same shipment. 

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was a French painter and sculptor, one of the great masters of Fauvism.
This work is part of a series of four large Blue Nudes (Nu bleu I–IV).
They’re made using the papiers découpés technique — paper painted with a deep blue gouache, cut out and then pasted onto a backing.
They depict nude female figures in different poses, highly simplified yet full of expression.
Matisse created them while recovering from surgery, working from a wheelchair or even from his bed, assisted by helpers who arranged the cut-outs under his direction.
The Blue Nudes are often seen as a kind of culmination of his career: after decades of painting and sculpture, he discovered in these cut-outs a new way of “painting with scissors.”
The order I–IV doesn’t follow a strict chronology, but rather variations on the same theme and posture.
When first shown in New York in 1953, the works created a sensation because many critics saw them as “radical” pieces by an 82-year-old artist.
Today they’re spread across different museums (for example, Nu bleu II at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Nu bleu III at the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland).



Poster design - Abstract, Fauvism - Italy

Henri Matisse (after) - "Nudo Blu II" (1952) - 2000s

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