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Original Vintage Henri Matisse Exhibition Poster, The Tate Gallery, 1953
c. 1953

About the Item

Original Vintage Henri Matisse Exhibition Poster, The Tate Gallery, 1953 "The Sculpture of Matisse and Three Paintings with Studies, 9 January - 22 February 1953, The Tate Gallery" Original lithograph poster designed by Henri Matisse (French, 1869 - 1954) A lithograph printed by Mourlot for an exhibition of Matisse's Sculptures at the Tate Gallery, specifically for the exhibition in 1953, the year before his death. Between 1900 and 1905, Matisse painted in the style called Fauves (French for “wild beasts”). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906. Matisse developed a style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form. In his final years, when ill health prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage, as seen in this poster. Mat size: 36"H x 27"W Poster size: 28"H x 19.5"W Presented in a new white mat with foam core backing. Henri Matisse came from a family who were of Flemish origin and lived near the Belgian border. At eight o'clock on the evening of December 31, 1869, he was born in his grandparents' home in the town of Le Cateau in the far north of France. His father was a self-made seed merchant who was a mixture of determination and tightly coiled tension. Henri had no clear idea of what he wanted to do with his life. He was a twenty-year-old law clerk convalescing from appendicitis when he first began to paint, using a box of colors given to him by his mother. Little more than a year later, in 1890, he had abandoned law and was studying art in Paris. The classes consisted of drawing from plaster casts and nude models and of copying paintings in the Louvre. He soon rebelled against the school's conservative atmosphere; he replaced the dark tones of his earliest works with brighter colors that reflected his awareness of Impressionism. Matisse was also a violinist; he took an odd pride in the notion that if his painting eye failed, he could support his family by fiddling on the streets of Paris. Henri found a girlfriend while studying art, and he fathered a daughter, Marguerite, by her in 1894. In 1898, he married another woman, Amelie Parayre. She adopted the beloved Marguerite; they eventually had two sons, Jean, a sculptor and Pierre who became an eminent art dealer. Relations between Matisse and his wife were often strained. He often dallied with other women, and they finally separated in 1939, over a model who had been hired as a companion for Mme. Matisse. She was Madame Lydia, and after Mme. Matisse left, she remained with Matisse until he died. Matisse spent the summer of 1905 working with Andre Derain in the small Mediterranean seaport of Collioure. They began using bright and dissonant colors. When they and their colleagues exhibited together, they caused a sensation. The critics and the public considered their paintings to be so crude and so roughly crafted that the group became known as Les Fauves (the wild beasts). By 1907, Matisse moved on from the concerns of Fauvism and turned his attention to studies of the human figure. He had begun to sculpt a few years earlier. In 1910, when he saw an exhibition of Islamic art, he was fascinated with the multiple patterned areas and adapted the decorative universe of the miniatures to his interiors. As a continuation of his interest in the "exotic", Matisse made extended trips to Morocco in 1912 and 1913. At the end of 1917, Matisse moved to Nice; he would spend part of each year there for the remainder of his life. A meticulous dandy, he wore a light tweed jacket and a tie when he painted. He never used a palette, but instead squeezed his colors on to plain white kitchen dishes and used them just as they came out of the tube. During the early 1930s Matisse was engaged in designing murals for the Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia. He was also commissioned to illustrate a number of books, for which he made etchings. Although he suffered a serious illness and underwent surgery for intestinal cancer early in 1941, he was able to continue. His recovery left him unable to paint comfortably at an easel. Instead of relaxing as might have been expected, he grew younger as he grew older. He turned to colored paper and a pair of scissors, raising color to an emotional level and simplifying forms to a childish simplicity. While he worked, he saw almost no one except the handsome Russian Livia Delectorskaya, who was his chief model, housekeeper, secretary and protector. Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.

Creation Year:

c. 1953

Dimensions:

Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)Depth: 0.25 in (6.35 mm)

Medium:

Paper,Ink,Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Fauvist

After:

(after) Henri Matisse (French)

Period:

1970-1979

Condition:

Poster was attached to a cardstock backing by a previous owner. Puncture holes on the top and bottom center, as expected for an exhibition poster. Some mild surface artifacts from age.

Gallery Location:

Soquel, CA

Reference Number:

Seller: ANS92191stDibs: LU54214299632

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