Graves International Art

Title: "Dancer in Wooden Armchair"
Portfolio: Dix Danseuses (Ten Dancers)
*Signed LR *Rare
Year: 1925
Medium: Original Lithograph
Limited edition: 122/130
Framed size: 30" x 26.5"
Image size: 16.5" x 12.25"
Reference: Duthuit 483
Price: SOLD

Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (French: 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour 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. Along with Picasso, Matisse helped to define and influence radical contemporary art in the 20th century. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Title: "Figure endormie dans un intérieur (Interior with Sleeping Figure)"
*Signed LR *Extremely rare
Year: 1929
Medium: Original Etching on chine appliqué
Limited edition: 22/25
Framed size: 19" x 20"
Sheet size: 11" x 15"
Image size: 3.75" x 5"
Reference: Duthuit 180
Price: $32,000

Title: "Figure allongée devant un carrelage (Figure Lying in front of a Tiled Floor)"
*Signed LR *Extremely rare
Year: 1929
Medium: Original Etching on chine appliqué
Limited edition: 25/25
Sheet size: 11" x 15"
Image size: 4.5" x 7.75"
Reference: Duthuit 204
Price: $28,000