Henri Matisse: Cut-Outs - Drawing with Scissors Boxed set - 2009

Taschen 2009. Hardcover, 480 pages, ENG, 400 x 300 x 80 mm, NEW !! , 2 volumes !, Full Paged Illustrations in colour / b/w, Includes a sturdy hard cardboard box for protection ! Second volume even covered in plastic foil ! Brandnew !. ISBN 9783822830529. A perfect facsimile of Jazz, a 20th century masterpiece This two-volume edition includes a perfect facsimile of Matisse's seminal cut-out work: Jazz. At last, readers can experience Jazz as if holding the 1947 original. The reputation of Henri Matisse (1869?1954) as the most important artist of the modern era is rivaled only by Picasso?who himself said, "All things considered, there is only Matisse." Towards the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush. So at almost 80 years of age, he developed a new technique: he drew shapes on colored paper, cut them out and pasted them together. These gouaches decoup?es (gouache cut-outs) represented… Leer más

TASCHEN, 2009-10-01. hardcover. Like New. 12x3x17. Massive two volume set in slipcase. Cut-outs looks unread, Jazz inserts (in chemise) are still in shrink wrap. Slipcase shows touch of shelf wear. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

TASCHEN. Collectible - Very Good. Condition: Very Good +; Two oversize hardcovers in slipcase, Jazz and Cut-outs. Jazz is a facsimile of the original that was published in 1947, with unbound pages. The pages are printed in 18 colors on Old Mill from Italian paper mill Fedrigoni. The unbound pages are still in shrinkwrap and are protected by a french folded jacket and a hard-backed cover. Cut-outs Drawing With Scissors is 333 pages with many fold-out illustrations. Cut-outs is in Fine flawless condition and Jazz has a minor bump to the fore-edge of the front cover otherwise in Fine condition. The illustrated slipcase is noticably bumped on one edge but is otherwise clean and in excellent condition. Photos upon request.