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Matisse 1952 Mourlot Lithograph Affiches d'exposition

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Matisse 1952 Mourlot Lithograph Affiches d'exposition
Artist Name: Henri MatisseTitle: Affiches d'expositionMedium: 2nd printing lithograph * Publisher: Mourlot * Year: 1952Paper Size: 25.5 x 19.5 inchesImage Size: 21.5 x 19.5 inchesCondition: ExcellentNotes: * Very rare original poster lithographBiography * Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (1869 – 1954) was a French artist, known for 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 and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.  Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.  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. * *