Henry Matisse - Drawings 1936
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
The drawings that Matisse produced in the mid-1930s were those he valued as amongst his very greatest achievements. And finely reproduced as they are here now, they astonish, delight and seduce everyone who sees them by their verve, their audacity and their voluptuousness. Made in pen and ink, admitting of no correction, devoid of shading or hatching they are, as Matisse said of them, 'the most direct expression of my emotion.'These portraits and drawings of models reclining in and against profusely patt