Henri Matisse, Plusieurs Sonnets, Posies De Stphane Mallarm, Lithograph

Condition: Pre-Owned
Lithograph on vlin papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljaloux paper. Paper Size: 11.02 x 8.46 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Suite des reproductions des eaux-fortes de Henri Matisse pour illustrer les Posies de Stphane Mallarm, 1970. Published by Production Edito-Service S.A., Le Grand-Saconnex, Canton of Genve, in collaboration with Albert Skira, Genve; printed by Production Edito-Service S.A., Italy, 1970. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This edition, Poems by Stphane Mallarm, is illustrated with XXIX original etchings by Henri-Matisse. The draw, finished on October, Twenty-Fifth, One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Thirty-Two, in Paris, on the presses of Lon Pichon for typography, and by R. Lacouriere for engravings. Limited to CXLV examples, signed by the artist, namely: XXX examples on Japon of the imperial manufacture, including V examples, numbered of I to V, each containing a suite on Japon with black remarks, a suite on Chine with black remarks, and an original drawing by the artist, and XXV examples, numbered from VI to XXX, each containing a sequel on Japon with remarks in black; Ninety-five examples, numbered from XXXI to CXXV, on vlin la forme, fabriqu spcialement by the papeteries d'Arches; and, XX non-commerce examples, numbered in Roman numerals from I to XX, reserved for the artist and collaborators. The coppers used to draw the illustrations have been scratched by the artist in the presence of the publisher. This album has been presented to collectors and bibliophiles of The United States of America by Marie Harriman. This second edition, 21.5 28 cm, was drawn with the permission of Albert Skira on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljaloux. Production Edito-Service S.A., Genve. Printed in Italy.

HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labeled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. In 2018, the Matisses painting, Odalisqque couche aux magnolias, sold for $80,750,000 at Christie's, which set a world record for the artist.
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