1950s Matisse Tate Gallery Exhibition Poster, Framed

Description

The Sculpture of Matisse and three paintings with studies The Tate Gallery original exhibition poster.
Date: 1953
Size: 28 x … more The Sculpture of Matisse and three paintings with studies The Tate Gallery original exhibition poster.
Date: 1953
Size: 28 x 20 inches
Frame size: 21” x 29” x 0.75”
Frame color: royal blue
Artist: Matisse, Henri
Medium: Color Lithograph
Henri Matisse autograph printed at the bottom right of the litho

An exceptional exhibition poster in excellent condition from one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, designed by Matisse specifically for the exhibition in 1953, the year before his death. The edition was limited to 800.

Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for 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 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 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