Une fête en Cimmérie

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Une fête en Cimmérie

Henri Matisse; Author: Georges Duthuit; Publisher: Tériade, Paris, France

Date
1963
Medium
Lithographs, letterpress, bound volume
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Henri Matisse created his illustrations for this project before the author’s text had been completed. The story, written by his son-in-law, Georges Duthuit, was a fictional account of the meeting between a modern civilized society and a primitive one, that of Cimmérie, which he based on North American Inuits. Because of the nature of the subject, Matisse relied upon second-hand sources for his illustrations: photography, films, reference books, and Inuit masks. France, Europe

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