ARTISTS
Matisse: A Celebration of French Poets and Poetry
Jan 28, 2011 - May 08, 2011
Drawing parallels between art and prose, “Matisse, A Celebration of French Poets & Poetry” reflects on the intricate and prolific relationship between the two mediums. In 1930 when Matisse returned to France from an extended vacation to Tahiti, he was invited by the famous French publisher, Albert Skira, to illustrate selected poems entitled Poésies by the nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé. It was the first of several commissions to follow involving poetry and the graphic arts of etching and later lithography. In 1948, the last major commission and collaboration with Skira was Florilége des Amours de Ronsard, an illustrated work consisting of 126 lithographs in sanguine, celebrating the love poems of Pierre Ronsard.
Drawing parallels between art and prose, “Matisse, A Celebration of French Poets & Poetry” reflects on the intricate and prolific relationship between the two mediums. In 1930 when Matisse returned to France from an extended vacation to Tahiti, he was invited by the famous French publisher, Albert Skira, to illustrate selected poems entitled Poésies by the nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé. It was the first of several commissions to follow involving poetry and the graphic arts of etching and later lithography. In 1948, the last major commission and collaboration with Skira was Florilége des Amours de Ronsard, an illustrated work consisting of 126 lithographs in sanguine, celebrating the love poems of Pierre Ronsard.
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