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Henri Matisse; Author: Pierre Reverdy; Publisher: Éditions du Chêne, Paris; Lithographer: Mourlot Freres, Paris; Printer: Fequet et Baudier, Paris, France, (text)

Date

1946

Medium

Lithographs, letterpress

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

This illustrated book is unique because Matisse’s friend the poet Pierre Reverdy created a text to accompany Matisse’s images. Somewhat earlier Matisse had created a series of lithographs representing one of his female models, and their existence prompted a publishers to suggest printing them as a collector’s edition. For the general design, Matisse followed his usual practice of creating appropriate ornaments and of combining these with images and text in the order he saw fit. France, Europe

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