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Sculpture Matisse Poster Mourlot Printing Framed 1959

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Sculpture Matisse Poster Mourlot Printing Framed 1959
Artist: Henri MatisseMedium: LithographPaper Type: Art paperPrinter: Mourlot Printing PressEdition: FirstPublisher: BrazillerDate of Edition: 1959Paper Size: 12" x 9 1/2"Frame Size: 20 1/2" x 17 3/4"Condition: Excellent; some minor wear to frame**Mourlot was the dominant fine art poster printer of the Post War French Art Posters.  This is Mourlot's as well as this artists' output for the Poster through 1959*On the reverse is a wire to hang the lithograph, as well as information pertaining to the print.BiographyHenri-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.