Description & Technical information
Simplification of means allows it. However, these drawings are more complete than they appear to some who assimilate them to some kind of sketches. They bring light ; [...] As soon as my moved line has modelled the light of my white sheet, without removing its touching white quality, I cannot add or take anything back anymore. The page is
written: no possible corrections, I just have to start again if
insufficient, like if it was acrobatics...".
Date: 1915
Period: 20th century
Origin: France
Medium: Charcoal and stump on paper
Signature: Signed and dated lower right : Matisse 1915
Dimensions: 75.5 x 56.5 cm (29³/₄ x 22¹/₄ inches)
Provenance: Lumley-Cazalet Collection, 1984.
The Waddington Galleries, London.
Private collection, United States.
Sale, Sotheby's, New-York, November 1997, n°142.
A. Alfred Taubman, New-York.
Categories: Paintings, Drawings & Prints

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