‎Courthion Pierre‎
‎Henri-Matisse‎

‎PIERRES LEVÉES, poèmes. Paris 1948 Avec un lithographie de Henri Matisse, signée.‎

‎Henri MATISSE - VISAGE DE FEMME. Pour Jules Romains : Pierres Levées, poèmes. Paris 1948. AVEC UNE LITHOGRAPHIE ORIGINALE SUR CHINE APPLIQUÉ SIGNÉE AU CRAYON PAR HENRI MATISSE, frontispice de l'ouvrage de Jules Romains : "PIERRES LEVÉES. Poèmes". Paris, Flammarion, 1948. L'EXEMPLAIRE DE L'ÉCRIVAIN, justifié à son nom. Édition : 340 ex. signés par l'artiste. Tirage de la lithographie : Mourlot Frères, Paris. Tirage original signé. Très beau visage féminin dégageant une sérénité totale. L'ouvrage complet est joint. Il s'agit d'un des exemplaires réservés à l'écrivain et justifié à son nom sur vélin de Lana. Quelques piqûres claires sur le support en vélin de Lana, l'épreuve sur Chine en parfait état. En feuilles sous emboîtage. Il est enrichi d'une dédicace autographe de Jules Romains, signée. - Note : Dans une lettre de Jules Romains à Henri Matisse : "Je tiens à vous remercier vivement pour votre dessin si expressif et si noble. Je suis heureux que nos noms soient associés dans ce livre. C'est pour moi la marque nouvelle d'une nouvelle amitié…". L'écrivain fait sans doute allusion au portrait de Mme Jules Romains que Matisse réalisa en 1924. - ENGLISH DESCRIPTION : Henri MATISSE - WOMAN'S FACE. For Jules Romans: Pierres Levées, poems. Paris 1948. WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH ON "CHINE APPLIQUÉ" SIGNED IN PENCIL BY HENRI MATISSE, frontispiece to the book of Jules Romains: "PIERRES LEVÉES. Poèmes". Paris, Flammarion, 1948. THE AUTHOR'S COPY, justified in his name. Edition: 340 copies, the lithograph signed by the artist. Print of the lithograph: Mourlot Frères, Paris. Original signed print. Very beautiful feminine face exuding total serenity. The complete work is attached. This is one of the copies reserved for the writer and justified with his name on Lana vellum paper. Some light stitching on Lana's vellum backing, the China print in perfect condition. In sheets in slipcase. It is enriched with an autograph dedication by Jules Romans, signed. - Note: In a letter from Jules Romains to Henri Matisse: "I would like to thank you very much for your drawing which is so expressive and so noble. I am happy that our names are associated in this book. It is for me the new mark of 'a new friendship…'. The writer is undoubtedly referring to the portrait of Madame Jules Romain that Matisse painted in 1924 (Duthuit n° 23). ‎

‎Très beau visage féminin dégageant une sérénité totale. Quelques piqûres claires sur le support en vélin de Lana, l'épreuve sur Chine en parfait état. Tirage original signé. L'ouvrage complet est joint (Duthuit n° 23, reproduit).‎

‎MATISSE : Photographies. Exposition 4 juillet - 30 septembre 1986 (Cahiers Henri Matisse, 2).‎

‎Cahiers Henri Matisse 2.- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nice.- Exposition 4 juillet - 30 septembre 1986. In-8 broché (26 x 18,7 cm), couverture illustrée à larges rabats, 158 pages. Préface par Xavier Girard,, Matisse et la photographie par Jean-François Chevrier, illustré de photographies de Henri Matisse, bibliographie.- 520g.- Excellent état.‎

‎Henri Matisse : "Cut-outs", "Jazz"‎

‎, Taschen, 2009 Hardcover, 480 pages, ENG, 400 x 300 x 80 mm, NEW !! , 2 volumes !, Full Paged Illustrations in colour / b/w, Includes a sturdy hard cardboard box for protection ! Second volume even covered in plastic foil ! Brandnew !. ISBN 9783822830529.‎

‎A perfect facsimile of Jazz, a 20th century masterpiece This two-volume edition includes a perfect facsimile of Matisse's seminal cut-out work: Jazz. At last, readers can experience Jazz as if holding the 1947 original. The reputation of Henri Matisse (1869?1954) as the most important artist of the modern era is rivaled only by Picasso?who himself said, "All things considered, there is only Matisse." Towards the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush. So at almost 80 years of age, he developed a new technique: he drew shapes on colored paper, cut them out and pasted them together. These gouaches decoup?es (gouache cut-outs) represented a revolution in modern art, yet their simplicity was dismissed by many critics as the folly of a senile old man. Later critics realized that Matisse had found a brilliant solution to the age-old conflict between line and color?one that would profoundly influence generations of artists to come. Printed in exactly the same colors, using paper and inks similar to the 1947 edition, the facsimile volume allows readers to experience Jazz in its original, unbound form. * Printed in 18 colors on a small offset press, 4 pages at a time, to obtain the highest fidelity to the original * Printed on Old Mill in 190 g/m from Italian paper mill Fedrigoni. This paper is of archival quality and has a felt-like softness, much like handmade paper * As with the original, this reprint is unbound and folded in signatures of 4 pages. It is protected by a French folded jacket and a hard-backed cover The second volume provides a thorough historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their genesis in his 1930 trip to Tahiti, through to his final years in Nice. Also included are other pivotal works from his later career, including his contributions to Verve magazine and his exquisite decoration of the Vence Chapel. Includes rare and historic photographs by Matisse taken in Tahiti, as well as photos of Matisse by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassa?, and the filmmaker Murnau. The text is supplemented by quotations from Matisse, Picasso, E. T?riade (the publisher of Jazz and Verve), the poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law, Georges Duthuit.‎

‎MATISSE, comme dans les dahlias (Cahiers Henri Matisse, 9).‎

‎Cahiers Henri Matisse 9 - Grasse, Villa Fragonard & Nice, Musée Matisse, 27 juillet, 30 septembre 1992. In-8 broché (26 x 18,7 cm), couverture illustrée à larges rabats, 56 pages. Texte de Xavier Girard et Christian Arthaud, illustrations. - 250g.- Excellent état.‎

‎HENRI MATISSE- Art du livre, Cahiers Henri Matisse no 3, Musée Matisse à Nice, Nice , 1986 ; Matisse dans les collections du Musée des Beaux -Arts à Lyon, Lyon, 1987, ensemble 2 vol. in 4, broché sous étui commun, catalogue de l'exposition au Musée des Beaux-Arts à Lyon en 1987 reprenant partiellement l' exposition au Musée de Nice de l'année précedante; très bon état;‎