Accession number
PML 195637
Creator
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954.
Published
Paris : Éditions "Cahiers d'art", 1936.
Credit line
Gift of Frances and Michael Baylson, 2010.
Notes
Title from Duthuit.
Sub-title Dessins de Matisse appears only on printed portfolio of regular edition.
Special issue of Cahiers d'art, 11e année, 1936, 3-5.
"Automatisme et espace illusoire", by Christian Zervos: p. 69-[75]
"À Henri Matisse" [poem] by Tristan Tzara: p. [76]
Matisse's first use of paper cut-outs for cover illustration.
Library's copy is one of an unknown number of exemplaires de tête, with wrappers designed after a paper cut-out by the artist, and one aquatint inserted.
Aquatint, entitled L'Homme endormi, housed separately: PML 195718. Baylson Collection also contains one touched proof of the aquatint: PML 195719.
Sub-title Dessins de Matisse appears only on printed portfolio of regular edition.
Special issue of Cahiers d'art, 11e année, 1936, 3-5.
"Automatisme et espace illusoire", by Christian Zervos: p. 69-[75]
"À Henri Matisse" [poem] by Tristan Tzara: p. [76]
Matisse's first use of paper cut-outs for cover illustration.
Library's copy is one of an unknown number of exemplaires de tête, with wrappers designed after a paper cut-out by the artist, and one aquatint inserted.
Aquatint, entitled L'Homme endormi, housed separately: PML 195718. Baylson Collection also contains one touched proof of the aquatint: PML 195719.
Description
p. 69-[76], 36 leaves of plates : 38 ill. (36 mounted) ; 33 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on front flyleaf in ink: à René Char, en toute sympathie, Henri Matisse, Vence 7 avril 1946.
Provenance
René Char ; Frances and Michael Baylson Collection.
Binding
Unsewn folded sheets in red, blue, green, white, and black decorated wrappers, after a paper cut-out design by Matisse.
Classification
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