Poésies

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Poésies

Henri Matisse; Author: Stéphane Mallarmé; Publisher: Albert Skira & Cie, Lausanne; Printer: Léon Pichon, (text); Etcher: Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris, France

Date
1932
Medium
Etchings, letterpress
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

In 1930 the young publisher, Albert Skira, asked Matisse to illustrate a special collection of poems by the French Symbolist Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898). In this, his first commission to illustrate a book, Matisse established both the comprehensive method of design and the “non-imitative” approach to illustration that he subsequently followed in his other important illustrated books. France, Europe

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