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

Offset lithograph after Henri Matisse (*)
Reproduction of the work “Nu Bleu II”, a piece created by Matisse in 1952, and which belongs to the collection of the Centre National d’Art Georges Pompidou.
Print authorized by the Matisse Estate.
Edited 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 preserved in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. The shipment will be sent 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 Julian Academy (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, yet color is given a preeminent importance. His first solo exhibition took place in 1904.
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 headed the Fauvism movement that caused such a scandal; the artist applies vivid, flat colors on the canvas that convey the intensity of his emotions, simplifies forms and outlines them with a black line. Journeys 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 Paris studio. In 1910 he published “Notes of a Painter” in which he states: “what I pursue above all is expression.” The arabesque becomes among the motifs of this expression around 1910. He painted interiors, workshops, nudes. His free treatment of color and form provokes scandal at the Armory Show in which he participated in 1913.
After the end of World War I, Matisse devoted himself to figurative representation of female figures, odalisques posing for him in rooms with iridescent colors, with arabesque and floral motifs.
Matisse settled in Nice in 1921, where he would live until the end of his life. He drew series, engraved, illustrated, created frescos, designed theater sets and costumes, sculpted busts and female nudes, painted, and began a new phase of experimentation from 1947: cut and paste papers highlighted 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.