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(Frontispiece) From "Les Fluers Du Mal", Text By Charles BaudelairePrice on Request Most works are on-hand and ready for immediate shipment. All works have been inspected and researched by gallery staff. All works come with a detailed research report and guarantee of authenticity. To see the certificate of authenticity for this work click on "see COA" button above. For additional warranty information click (see warranty information). Many works are presented in attractive frames
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- Condition:In generally good condition, with some minor foxing barely noticeable on the support sheet.
- Sheet: 16 by 11 1/2 in. (40 x 28 cm.)
- Plate: 9 1/2 by 7 1/4 in (23 x 18 cm.)
- References:
Recorded and illustrated in the text by Claude Duthuit on the original graphics used in portfolios and books, No. 19.- Provenance: Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
- Framing: Framed in accordance with accepted conservation standards, acid free mats and mounts, removable hinging.
- Note:A proof aside from the book edition.
The "Les Fluers du Mal" project was originally commissioned for a Lyon bibliophile society around 1936 but the project experienced many delays before being published in 1947. Originally Matisse had created a number of crayon lithographs for the illustrations. However these were damaged and unusable. So the illustrations in the book are, with one exception, being sold here, heliogravure reproductions of the original drawings which Matisse had used for the basis of the crayon drawings for the lithography. In the end these reproductions were used as the main illustrations. However Matisse did create one original etching for the frontispiece, as here. While there was no signed edition, apparently examples did pass into the market through the agency of his son, Pierre Matisse, who operated a gallery in New York for many years.
Matisse was fond of using thin paper for his etchings in order to get a clean thin line. However the paper needed to be mounted on a support sheet for practical reasons. The annotations, including signatures, for the edition were usually on these support sheets. - Sheet: 16 by 11 1/2 in. (40 x 28 cm.)