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Pour Versailles (from La Pompadour) by Henri Matisse

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Pour Versailles (from La Pompadour) by Henri Matisse
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Description
Pour Versailles (from La Pompadour), signed in pencil, numbered 29/200 and inscribed "Pour Versailles" (lower right)

Technique
Lithograph

Date Created
1951

Dimensions
40 x 32 cm; Sheet size: 52 x 38 cm

Provenance
Private Collection, Tel Aviv
Purchased in New York Gallery in the 1970's

Literature
Duthuit 665

Condition
Good

Biography
b. Le Cateau-Cambrésis [now Le Cateau], nr Cambrai, Picardy, 31 Dec 1869; d. Nice, 3 Nov 1954. French painter, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, designer and writer. He came to art comparatively late in life and made his reputation as the principal protagonist of FAUVISM, the first avant-garde movement at the turn of the century. He went on to develop a monumental decorative art, which was innovative both in its treatment of the human figure and in the constructive and expressive role accorded to colour. His long career culminated in a highly original series of works made of paper cut-outs, which confirmed his reputation, with Picasso, as one of the major artists of the 20th century.