Henri Matisse (after) - Nu Bleu II

Offset lithograph after Henri Matisse (*)
Reproduction of the work “Nu Bleu II,” a work created by Matisse in 1952, belonging to the collection of the Centre National d’Art Georges Pompidou.
Authorized print by the Matisse Succession.
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, so it is offered in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. The shipment will be tracked (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). 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 workshop. The landscapes and still lifes he painted in that period are of a classical style, though color is given preeminent 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 true leader of the Fauvism movement, which caused such scandal; the artist applies vivid, flat colors to the canvas that convey the intensity of his emotions, simplifies forms and contours them with a black line. Travels to sunny countries (Corsica, southern France, Algeria, Spain, Tahiti…) confirm his tendency to privilege color. Matisse paints landscapes, portraits, compositions with figures.
In 1907, the artist opened a painting school, the Académie Matisse, in his own Paris studio. In 1910 he published “Notes of a Painter” in which he states: “What I seek above all is expression.” The arabesque is among the motifs of this expression around 1910. He painted interiors, studios, nudes. His free handling 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 iridescent settings, with arabesque motifs and flowers.
Matisse settled in Nice in 1921, where he would remain for the rest of his life. Matisse drew series, cut, illustrated, created frescoes, designed theater sets and costumes, bust models and female nudes, painted and entered a new phase of experimentation from 1947: cutting and pasting papers highlighted with gouache; the artist’s work becomes more abstract. Matisse created the album “Jazz” in 1947 and another series of “Interiors” following the same scheme.
Matisse died in Nice in 1954.