1991 Henri Matisse, Bather among the Reeds 1952, Blue Nudes, Fauvism, Modernism, Post-Impressionism expressionism, exhibition wall art decor

This original serigraph from 1991 poster is "Baigneuse dans les roseaux" or "Bather among the Reeds" by Henri Matisse and published by King & McGraw.
The original cut-out was created around 1952-1954. This work is part of Matisse's famous series of "Blue Nudes" and his late-career technique of gouaches découpées (cut-out gouache paper). The image features a stylized blue female nude seated, with abstract forms representing the reeds or vegetation around her.
Good quality thick paper
Screenprinted by hand in the UK
Printed by King & McGraw
Dimensions: 39.5 in x 27.5 in (100 cm x 70 cm)

Henri Matisse 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.

The intense colorism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (wild beasts). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form. When ill health in his final years prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage.

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.

What is special about exhibition and gallery posters is that they are an affordable way of getting good, unique art on the walls, as although it is not an artists original, neither is it something that has been mass reproduced.

Because of the age of these posters, there are areas of wear and tear, particularly on the edges. I have done my best to take photos where they are torn. The good news is that when framed, the tears press up well against glass, and edges can be hidden by mats. Any wear picked up from years are part of the charm.

These posters are sent as unframed. They are delivered in a cardboard-backed envelope for protection. They have been stored folded.

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