MATISSE (Henri). - ORLÉANS (Charles d')

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MATISSE (Henri). - ORLÉANS (Charles d')
Poems. [Paris], Tériade, 1950. In-folio, (4 blanches)- 100-(8 including the last 5 blanches) pp.., in sheets in a filled folder, slightly used cardboard case from the publisher. EXAMPLE SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, like all those in the edition. FIRST PRINT OF THE 54 LITHOGRAPHIES OF HENRI MATISSE, all full-page, including 2 on the cover. Entirely lithographed work, text included (except the colophon sheet and justification, printed): Matisse transcribed by hand the text of the poems in coloured interlacing frames, accompanied by 5 portraits and compositions proposing variations on the fleur-de-lys motif. "I AM IN INTIMATE WITH CHARLES D'ORLÉANS. WHAT LIMPIDITY" (HENRI MATISSE to André Rouveyre, 25 October 1942). At the end of 1942, as he was finishing his work on Ronsard and was about to begin work on Baudelaire, Henri Matisse was caught up in reading the poems of Charles d'Orléans, whose "crystal and musical atmosphere" he said he tasted (to Henry de Montherlant, 15 February 1943). At the suggestion of André Rouveyre, he began the composition of a personal illustrated anthology of the poet's ballads and rondeaux, which was almost completed in 1943. The publishing project, however, did not come to fruition until 1947 with the publisher Tériade and the Mourlot workshop: he then resumed work on the book, had the first lithographs made, and the volume was published in 1950.
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