Henri Matisse (after) - Nu Bleu II

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

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

The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the artwork 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 in 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 predominant importance. His first solo exhibition took place in 1904.
In the previous year Matisse had cofounded the Salon d’Automne and was an integral part of the group “La cage aux fauves” in 1905. Matisse is the one who truly leads the Fauvism movement, which caused such a scandal; the artist applies vivid, flat colors on the canvas that convey 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…) confirm his inclination to privileget 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 depiction of feminine figures, odalisques posing for him in colored, iridescent settings with arabesque and floral motifs.
Matisse settled in Nice in 1921, where he would live until the end of his life. Matisse 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: he cut and pasted papers augmented with wash paintings; 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.