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Matisse et la gravure

Henri Matisse - Publisher Silvana - Ouvrage broché - 256 pages - Text in Bilingue Français / English - Published in 2015

All too often ignored, Matisse's engraved work is nevertheless of vital importance. From 1900 until the last years of his life, Matisse experimented with different engraving techniques, multiplying his research around a central theme: the figure.

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Model 9788836632350
Artist Henri Matisse
Author Sous la direction de Patrice Deparpe
Publisher Silvana
Format Ouvrage broché
Number of pages 256
Language Bilingue Français / English
Dimensions 280 x 240
Technique(s) 250 illustrations
Published 2015
Museum Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis

Catalogue of the exhibition Matisse et la gravure, presented at the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, (18 October 2015 - 6 March 2016).

Who better to describe the artist's printmaking than Henri Matisse's daughter Marguerite? Charged with supervising and validating Matisse's prints, and author, with her son Claude Duthuit, of the catalogue raisonné of the engraved work, she devoted a large part of her life to helping people discover ‘this unknown continent’, which is nevertheless an essential component of the work of an artist who is emblematic of colour!

This catalogue explores all the engraving techniques used by the artist from 1900 until the very end of his life. Matisse considered them to be drawings and did not retouch the plates: he started again! For Matisse, engraving, drawing, painting and sculpture all had the same importance, and all the major themes in his ongoing research into the human figure are represented in this book.

For the first time, the matrices (woodcut, lithographic stone, drypoint, etching, linocut, etc.) accompany the works, giving us an insight into the incredible demands, the relentless work involved in turning black into colour and achieving, with an economy of means, an incomparable purity.

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