Henri Matisse (1869-1954), after - Le Cirque - VG licensed print - 2001

Offset print after Henri Matisse (*)
Reproduction of the work “Le Cirque,” created by Matisse in 1947.
Print authorized by the Matisse Succession.
Signed on the plate.

Specifications:

- Support dimensions: 57 x 48 cm
- Image dimensions: 47.5 x 37 cm
- Year: 2001
- 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 tracked with a tracking number.

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 studio.
The landscapes and still lifes he painted in that period were of a classical style, yet color held a preeminent importance.
His first solo exhibition took place in 1904.
The year before, 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 one who truly headed the Fauvism movement that caused so much scandal; the artist applies bright, flat colors on the canvas that translate the intensity of his emotions, simplifies the forms and outlines them with a black line.
His travels to sunny countries (Corsica, the south of France, Algeria, Spain, Tahiti…) confirm his tendency to privilege color.
Matisse painted landscapes, portraits, and compositions with figures.
In 1907, the artist opened a painting school, the Matisse Academy, in his own Paris workshop.
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, 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 representing female figures, odalisques posing for him in iridescent color settings, with motifs of arabesques and flowers.
Matisse settled in Nice in 1921, where he would live until the end of his life.
Matisse drew series, recorded, 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 enhanced with wash painting; 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.