Vintage Henri Matisse Abstract Modernist Portraits - Set of 9

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This set of nine (9) lithographs depict abstracted modernist portraits of women by Henri Matisse (France 1869 - 1954). These … more This set of nine (9) lithographs depict abstracted modernist portraits of women by Henri Matisse (France 1869 - 1954). These iconic images are printed in bistre (a dark grayish brown pigment) on cream "laid" paper. Printed on one side only. These lithographs were created to accompany Ronsard's poetry. Great for a large wall treatment or several smaller groupings

Medium: lithographs (after Matisse). Printed in sanguine ink on cream laid paper from the Papeteries Casteljoux and published in Geneva by Edito-Service in 1970. after the 1948 Matisse lithographs for Florilege des amours de Ronsard. The full sheet size is 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 215 mm).

Creator: (after) Henri Matisse (French)
Creation Year: 1970
Dimensions: Height: 11.03 in (28 cm)Width: 8.47 in (21.5 cm)
Medium: Lithograph
Period: 1970-1979
Condition: Very good

Henri Matisse was not only an innovative genius but also a man of great warmth and humour with an overwhelming generosity of spirit. In 1941, in his early seventies and much of the time confined to his bed, he began one of his most complicated and successful printmaking projects, Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, illustrating the love poems of the 16th century poet Pierre de Ronsard. The work was to take seven years to complete and in its making Matisse’s sexuality was to find its most intense expression. The imagery created by Ronsard’s poems lent itself well to Matisse’s favoured themes of fruits, flowers, portraits and the female form. Most of these motifs were those which Matisse knew by heart and for which he had an abiding fondness.

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