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Henri Matisse "A Young Sailor II" (1906) Large #1767359

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Henri Matisse  A Young Sailor II  (1906) Large #1767359
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This print is of one of Matisse's most famous Fauve paintings. The print of the second of the "Young Sailor" series is as attractive and mesmerizing! </em></td>
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This is one of Henri Matisse's (French, 1869-1954) most famous Fauve paintings and is the second one of the "Young Sailor" series. The first, "A Young Sailor I" was painted in 1906 as well as was the second. According to Sabine Rewald, in her essay "A Sailor's Yarn", The Young Sailor paintings have become icons of Fauve painting and touchstones for all major publications related to Matisse or Fauvism. In this print, the sailor's stark look and his bright costume, against a cotton-candy pink background, make it one of Matisse's most striking Fauve portraits.<p>

Fauvism, an early 20th century French art movement and style of painting, came from the French word "fauves", meaning "wild beasts". Fauve artists used intense colors and forms in a uncontrolled way which sometimes seemed violent, or "beastly", to the viewers of that time. Matisse was considered the leader of the Fauve movement, which had as its purpose reduction of painting to a vibrant palette with simple forms and expansive brushwork which expressed fundamental elements of reality and emotion.<p>

The Young Sailor I (1906) and The Young Sailor II (1906) are the earliest of Matisse's pairs of paintings in which he painted the first version more naturally and the second more abstractly. Matisse painted both paintings within the Mediterranean village of Collioure. The subject of both is a young man, whom Matisse calls a sailor, who slouches in a chair as the artist paints his likeness. He wears a dark blue cap and pullover ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1906/1985</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Henri Matisse "A Young Sailor II" (1906) Large</td></tr>


<tr><td>Type:Matisse</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Hillsboro, Ohio USA</td></tr>
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