1996 the Sorrows of the King by Henri Matisse Vintage Fine Art Print Lithography Poster 90s

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Vintage fine art offset lithography with bright colors on thick high-quality museum paper (300gr)

Artist: Henri Matisse (Henri Émile Benoît … Read more Vintage fine art offset lithography with bright colors on thick high-quality museum paper (300gr)

Artist: Henri Matisse (Henri Émile Benoît Matisse)
Artwork: The Sorrows of the King / La Tristezza del Re [it] / La Tristesse du Roi [fr]
High-quality offset printed in Italy, 1996
Copyright © Succession Henri Matisse, SIAE (France) 1996
Published and distributed by Migneco & Smith, Firenze, Italy

MEASUREMENTS
31.49 x 23.62 inches
80cm x 60cm

ARTWORK SIZE
27.3 x 20 inches
69.5cm x 51cm

CONDITION: 28 years old print / Never Framed
Minor signs made in time from wrong storage / handling
Overall in excellent condition
Sold unframed

"The Sorrows of the King" is a collage using cut-out paper shapes by Henri Matisse from 1952. It was made from colored paper with gouache paint and is mounted on canvas, 292 x 386cm in size. This artwork was his final self-portrait. During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. By 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts.

About the artist: Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of color 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 his works between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (French for "wild beasts"). Many of his finest works were created in the decade after 1906 when he developed a rigorous style emphasizing flattened forms and decorative patterns. 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 cut paper collages.

His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

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