BIB_ID
390425
Accession number
MA 5020:220.53
Creator
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954.
Published
Paris : Fequet et Baudier, 1980?
Credit line
Gift of The Pierre Matisse Foundation, 1997
Description
25 reproductions
Notes
On folded sheets in greeting card format, with text on verso of front leaf, at foot: Henri MATISSE. Gravure originale à la gouge.
image: 21 x 15 cm (8 1/4 x 6 inches); sheet: (folded) 30.5 x 23.5 cm (12 x 9 1/2 inches); sheet: (unfolded) 30.5 x 47 cm (12 x 19 inches)
Summary
25 reproductions of an original linocut by Matisse for a greeting card by printer Fequet-Baudier, cachet Henri Matisse. The original identified by Duthait as one of two designs created by the artist for Iliazd's Poesies de mots inconnus (Paris : Le Degré 41, 1949). Cf. Marguerite Duthait-Matisse & Claude Duthait. Henri Matisse : catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre gravé. Paris : Claude Duthuit, 1983, no. 749 ("A propos de 'Poesie de mots inconnus'").
Medium
lithograph
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