Henri Matisse (after) - Nu Bleu II

Offset print after Henri Matisse (*)
Reproduction of the work “Nu Bleu II,” a piece created by Matisse in 1952, and part of the Centre National d’Art Georges Pompidou collection.
Authorized reproduction by the Matisse Succession.
Published by SIAE
Signed on the plate.

Specifications:

- Support dimensions: 60 x 45 cm
- Year: 1999
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, therefore offered in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced flat cardboard package. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number (UPS / DPD / DHL / FedEx).

The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in Cateau-Cambresis (France). As Pierre Bonnard did, Matisse studied Law. He began painting in 1890 and attended classes at the Julian Academy (1891-1892). He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1892 and joined Gustave Moreau’s studio. The landscapes and still lifes he painted in that period are of a classical style, though color is given preeminent importance. His first solo show took place in 1904.
The year before, Matisse had co-founded the Salon d’Automne and was an integral part of the “La cage aux fauves” group in 1905. Matisse is the true leader of Fauvism, which provoked much scandal; the artist applied vivid, flat colors to the canvas, translating the intensity of his emotions, simplifying forms and contouring them with a black line. Travels to sunny countries (Corsica, the South of France, Algeria, Spain, Tahiti…) confirmed his inclination to privilege color. Matisse painted landscapes, portraits, and still lifes with figures.
In 1907, the artist opened a painting school, the Matisse Academy, in his own Paris studio. In 1910 he published “Notes of a Painter” in which he states: “what I pursue above all is expression.” The arabesque is among the motifs of this expression around 1910. He painted interiors, workshops, nudes. His free treatment of color and form provoked scandal at the Armory Show in which he participated in 1913.
After World War I, Matisse devoted himself to the representation of female figures, odalisques posing for him in rooms with iridescent colors, with arabesque motifs and flowers.
Matisse settled in Nice in 1921, where he would remain for the rest of his life. He drew series, engraved, illustrated, created frescoes, designed theater sets and costumes, bust models and female nudes, painted and entered a new phase of experimentation from 1947: cut and paste papers enhanced with gouache paint; his work became more abstract. Matisse created the album “Jazz” in 1947 and another series of “Interiors” according to the same scheme.
Matisse died in Nice in 1954.