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HENRI MATISSE (after)
Odalisque sur la Terrasse
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Color aquatint, 1922-23. 483x601 mm;
19x23
3
/
4
inches, full margins. Signed by
Matisse and numbered 47/200 in ink,
lower margin. Etched by Jacques Villon.
Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune,Paris.
A very good, well-inked impression, with
strong colors.
This color aquatint is based on the same-
titled oil by Matisse, now in a private
collection, NewYork.
Many prominent French artists produced
“after” prints, that is etchings, aquatints
and lithographs produced after their
well-known oil paintings, issuing works
that were made by the same professional
printmakers that they were working with
to produce their “original” editions. In
some cases, like this work and the pre-
ceeding lot, the “after” prints were created
by well-known artists, like JacquesVillon,
who also made prints after paintings by
Manet, Cézanne,Van Gogh and Picasso.
“After” prints were also created under
the auspices of artists’ publishers. Like his
contemporaries—Chagall, Braque and
Picasso—Matisse assisted the printers
closely throughout the entire process; he
chose each image and which technique
to use, directed the lithographer or engraver,
and corrected and approved the proofs,
authorizing his production of the work
by hand-signing the edition.
These “after” prints reproduce prominent,
large color paintings from earlier in the
artists’careers,created before they had begun
to utilize color printmaking techniques.
Generally, these “after” editions have been
championed by print publishers too as a
means of extending the artists’ commercial
output. Ginestet/Pouillon 633 (Villon);
Duthuit I.
[20,000/30,000]