1946 Original Etching "Lydia" by Henri Matisse

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Henry Matisse Lydia limited edition print/etching.
12.75 x 9.5 in 32 x 24 cm plus margins
Edition: Not numbered, from … Read more Henry Matisse Lydia limited edition print/etching.
12.75 x 9.5 in 32 x 24 cm plus margins
Edition: Not numbered, from the edition of 5 not signed
Printed in 1946
Lydia Nikolaevna Délectorskaya (23 June 1910 Tomsk,16 March 1998 Paris) was a Russian refugee and model best known for her collaboration with Henri Matisse from 1932 onwards.
Born in the Siberian city of Tomsk, the only daughter of a pediatrician, Delectorskaya was orphaned at twelve, when both parents died in successive epidemics of typhus and cholera. Brought up by her aunt, they fled from the Russian revolution of 1917 to Manchuria, China. Lydia wanted to become a doctor and was accepted in the medical faculty of the Sorbonne, but the high fees charged to foreign students were out of reach and she ended up a penniless exile in Nice.[4] The first paintings Matisse made of Lydia combined the phenomenal virtuosity that had cost him so many years to perfect with his original instinctive ability to compose spontaneously in color. Matisse's son Pierre told his father that he had renewed himself as a painter with Pink Nude, for which Lydia modeled over a period of six months in 1935. See less