Henri Matisse (after) - Nu Bleu II

Offset print after Henri Matisse (*)
Reproduction of the work “Nu Bleu II”, created by Matisse in 1952, belonging to the collection of the Centre National d’Art Georges Pompidou.
Authorization for printing by the Matisse Estate.
Edited 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, and is offered in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. The shipment will be certified 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 extra cost to the buyer.

(*) Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in Cateau-Cambresis (France). Like Pierre Bonnard, Matisse studied Law. He began painting in 1890 and attended classes at the Académie Julian (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, yet color is given paramount importance. His first solo exhibition took place in 1904.
The previous year Matisse had co-founded the Salon d’Automne and was an integral part of the group “La cage aux fauves” in 1905. Matisse is the leader who truly headed the Fauvism movement that caused such a scandal; the artist applied vivid, flat colors on the canvas that conveyed the intensity of his emotions, simplified forms, and outlined them with a black line. Trips to sunny countries (Corsica, the south of France, Algeria, Spain, Tahiti…) confirm his preference for 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 becomes part of this expression around 1910. He painted interiors, studios, and 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 dedicated himself to the representation of female figures, odalisques who posed for him in settings of iridescent colors, with arabesque motifs and flowers.
Matisse settled in Nice in 1921, where he would continue to live for the rest of his life. Matisse drew series, etched, illustrated, created frescoes, designed theater sets and costumes, bust models and female nudes, painted, and entered a new phase of experimentation starting in 1947: cut and paste papers enhanced with gouache; the artist’s work became more abstract. Matisse created the album “Jazz” in 1947 and another series of “Interiors” following the same scheme.
Matisse died in Nice in 1954."