Matisse, Dessins, Gravuress, Galerie 65, Cannes, Stone Lithographic Poster by Henri Matisse, From the Timothy Yarger Gallery in Beverly Hills

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A very rare early STONE LITHOGRAPH poster, not sure if printed later, but has been sold out for over twenty … more A very rare early STONE LITHOGRAPH poster, not sure if printed later, but has been sold out for over twenty five years. Beautifully and expensively framed. The shipping charges are so high as it has to be sent framed. Please notice the photo of the gallery tag on the back of the frame. IT look like a gallery assistant did not know how to hang it on the wall, just poked a hole in the backing paper, the poster is in excellent condition.

Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, Timothy Yarger entered the art business in 1982 and has been a Los Angeles based art dealer since 1986. After directing galleries in San Francisco, New York and Beverly Hills, Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Inc. was established in 1997.

Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of color 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 Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

The intense colorism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (wild beasts). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form. When ill health in his final years prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage.

His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. less