Coquelicots, 1958, a Colour Lithograph by Henri Matisse
Coquelicots, 1958, a Colour Lithograph by Henri Matisse
Coquelicots, 1958, a colour lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) on pale cream smooth wove paper based on the cut-paper maquette of the same title, 1953
Created and editioned at the Mourlot Studio, Paris 1954, under the supervision of Matisse. Matisse died in 1954 before the magazine could be published. This special edition of Verve was eventually issued by Teriade for Verve Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36 July 1958 under the title 'Dernieres Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54. It included forty original lithographs of which this is one.
The printing of the lithographs in colour by Mourlot Freres and that of the photogravure reproductions and the typography by the master printers Drager Freres, was completed in Paris on 28 July 1958.
It is mounted and presented in a sloped hand-painted in Little Greene's cape red with gloss and non-reflective glass.
Framed: 49 x 68 cm
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