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Henri Matisse
La Vie et la mort de Richard Winslow (The Life and Death of Richard Winslow) (Frontispiece de Henri Matisse) (D. 18)
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- £1,000 - 1,500‡♠
£2,016
Lot Details
Lithograph, on wove paper, with full margins, the sheet bound (as issued) contained as the frontispiece in the complete volume La vie et la mort de Richard Winslow.
1947
19.4 x 14.3 x 2.9 cm (7 5/8 x 5 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
The lithograph signed in pencil, stamp-numbered '33' on the justification page, from the edition of 35, further signed in pencil on the spine of the volume (there were also 5 in Roman numerals), published by Éditions du Bélier, Paris.
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Henri Matisse
French | B. 1869 D. 1954The leading figure of the Fauvist movement at the turn of the 20th century, Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the giant of modern art alongside friend and rival Pablo Picasso. Working as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor for over five decades, he radically challenged traditional conventions in art by experimenting with vivid colors, flat shapes and distilled line. Rather than modeling or shading to lend volume to his pictures, the French artist employed contrasting areas of unmodulated color. Heavily influenced by the art and visual culture of non-Western cultures, his subjects ranged from nudes, dancers, odalisques, still lifes and interior scenes and later evolved into the graphic semi-abstractions of his cut-outs of his late career.
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