Henri Matisse (1869-1954), after - Nu Bleu II - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - SIAE licensed print - 1999

Cartel offset after de Henri Matisse (*)
Reproduction of the work “Nu Bleu II”, a work created by Matisse in 1952, and which belongs to the collection of the Centre National d’Art Georges Pompidou.
Impression authorized by the Matisse Estate.
Published by SIAE
Signed on the plate.

Specifications:

- Support dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Year: 1999
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, thus kept in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced flat cardboard box. 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 purchaser.

(*) Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in Cateau-Combrésis (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, yet giving color a predominant importance. His first solo exhibition took place in 1904.
The year before, Matisse had cofounded 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 Expressionist movement that caused such a scandal; the artist applies bright, flat colors on the canvas that convey the intensity of his emotions, simplifies forms and contours them with a black line. Trips to sunny countries (Corsica, the south of France, Algeria, Spain, Tahiti…) confirm his tendency to favor color. Matisse painted landscapes, portraits, and compositions with figures.
In 1907, the artist opened a painting school, the Academy Matisse, in his own Paris studio. In 1910 he published “Notes of a Painter” in which he stated: “what I pursue 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 a scandal at the Armory Show in which he participated in 1913.
At the end of World War I, Matisse dedicated himself to the representation of female figures, odalisques posing for him in decor with iridescent colors, with arabesque motifs and flowers.
Matisse settled in Nice in 1921 where he would continue to live until the end of his life. Matisse drew series, engraved, illustrated, created frescoes, designed stage sets and costumes, modeled busts and female nudes, painted and entered a new phase of experimentation from 1947: cut and paste papers enhanced with wash painting; 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.