(MATISSE HENRI) Alcaforado Marianna Lettres [Portugaises]

Sale 2195 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 6,960

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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000

(MATISSE, HENRI.) Alcaforado, Marianna. Lettres [Portugaises]. 15 full-page lithographs printed in brown and 5 lithographed illustrated titles, ornaments, and initial letters printed in purple, all unsigned, printed by Mourlot Frères. 4to, original lithographed wrappers printed in purple; scattered light spotting to preliminaries and along lower margins along deckle; cloth-backed chemise with spine label. Paris: Tériade, (1946)

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number 6 of only 20 hors commerce copies signed by matisse on the colophon; from a total edition of 270. Here Matisse illustrated the poems of the 17th-century nun Marianna Alcaforado to a French Officer with whom she fell in love and suffered an unrequited romance. This was Matisse's first collaboration with the great art publisher Tériade. It shows his mastery of draughtsmanship and displays a subtlety of line and form which beautifully portray Marianna's tormented longing and frailty. The Artist and the Book 199; Barr 560.