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An original Henri Matisse lithograph print.

June 1943

Original lithograph printed in four colors (blue, yellow, red, black) on wove paper.

Signed and dated on the stone lower right Henri Matisse 6/43.

A superb impression of the definitive state after Matisse’s cut paper collage, as published in the review Verve, vol. IV, no. 13 “De la Couleur”, by Efstratios Tériade, Éditions de la revue Verve, Paris, 1945; printed by Maitres-Impremieurs Draeger Freres, Paris.

Catalog: Claude Duthuit, Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages illustrés, Paris, 1988, pg. 363, no. 74 (ill.).

Size Image: 13 ¾ x 10 ¼ inches

Sheet Size: 13 ¾ x 10 ¼ inches

Framed Size: 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches

At the beginning of the 1940’s Matisse was starting to concentrate on the technique of using cut paper collages to create abstract color compositions. The dense smooth colors and clear-cut shapes created a totally new artistic language for him. It was in seeking to extend this concept that he began, under the encouragement of the publisher Tériade to experiment with using the same types of form created through stencil printing. At first he used cut stencil shapes linked to lithography, and then moved to using the stencils with pochoir color for this removed the problem of lithography diluting the color intensity.

Matisse’s project was to create an album titled Jazz – forms expressed through a brilliant highly emotional purity of vibrant color. The first trials were made using lithography, and it was in this connection that the Icarus composition above was issued by Tériade in Verve as a form of publicity for the forthcoming album. It is one of the great characteristic images of Matisse’s oeuvre of this period.