MATISSE, Henri (1869-1954)
Verve vol. IX, N^os 35 et 36. Dernières œuvres de Matisse 1950-1954. Paris : Editions de la revue Verve, 1958.

Deux exemplaires du double numéro de la revue artistique Verve sur les dernières œuvres de Matisse. La couverture est emblématique des travaux de Matisse autour des papiers découpés:

“Matisse designed six covers for Verve using his brilliantly colored paper cutouts, the famous papiers découpés that would later be epitomized by Jazz. Right from the beginning, he was thinking about how to ensure the purity and intensity of his colors and even went so far as to construct his collages out of papers he found in specimen books of printer’s ink manufacturers...Published in 1958, the orange Verve became a posthumous tribute to Matisse with articles on his work and lithograph reproductions of some of his gouache cutouts executed during the 1950s” (Bidwell, Graphic Passion : Matisse and the book arts, pp. 145-146).

2 vols. in-folio (357 x 265 mm). 40 reproductions lithographiées en couleur à pleine page dont 8 à double-page et 5 dépliantes, telles que requises à la table des planches, et 37 reproductions de dessins en noir et blanc. Couverture illustrée d’après des papier découpés originaux de Matisse (quelques frottements, usures et salissures aux couvertures).

Colorful and lively work by Matisse from the renowned French magazine Verve.