Henri Matisse (1869-1954), after - Nadia regardant à droite - Lithographic licensed print 1994 - COA

Lithograph after Henri Matisse (*)

Made on heavyweight cotton vellum paper.
Signed on the plate.
Stamp of the Matisse Estate on the verso of the sheet.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

Specifications:

- Support dimensions: 60 x 45 cm
- Image dimensions: 42 x 33 cm
- Year: 1994
- Edition: 1000ex.
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, therefore it is in perfect condition).

The artwork will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. The shipment will be certified 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 Gustav Moreau's workshop. The landscapes and still lifes he painted during that period are of a classical style, though color was given primary 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 such a scandal; the artist applies bright, flat colors on the canvas that convey the intensity of his emotions, simplifies the forms and outlines them with a black line. Travel to sunny countries (Corsica, the south of France, Algeria, Spain, Tahiti…) confirms his tendency to privilege color. Matisse painted landscapes, portraits, and compositions with figures.
In 1907, the artist opened a painting school, the Académie Matisse, in his 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, ateliers, and nudes. His free handling of color and form provoked scandal at the Armory Show in which he participated in 1913.
After the end of World War I, Matisse devoted himself to the representation of female figures, odalisques posing for him in colorful, iridescent 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, etched, 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 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.