ORIGINAL “LA GITANE, 1906” BY HENRI MATISSE, HELIOGRAVURE, PUBLISHED 1954

Condition: Excellent
 
The Heliogravure was printed by outstanding printers DRAEGER.
  
In very good condition having never been framed. Tipped-on good thick wove paper with a sheet size 22.50 x 28.00 Centimeters (8.86” x 11.02” Inches), Artwork Size 19.00 x 22.50 Centimeters – Inches (7.48” x 8.86”).

A very fine example of Henri Matisse Impressionist style.
A wonderful work by the great master.

ANTIQUE BOOKPLATE HELIOGRAVURE – ORIGINAL HELIOGRAVURE ON THICK WOVE PAPER FROM AN ORIGINAL 1954 EDITION.

FOR THOSE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH ART PRINTS THIS IS NOT ANY KIND OF A PHOTOGRAPH PROCESS, THIS IS AN ORIGINAL HELIOGRAVURE

This is NOT A COPY OR REPRODUCTION, it is an original book plate print and is 70 years old.

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French- 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
The intense colorism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (wild beasts). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917 he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form. When ill health in his final years prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage.
His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Printed in Paris, France 1954 by EDITIONS PIERRE TISNÉ