(MATISSE HENRI) Orléans Charles Duc d Poèmes de Charles dOrl

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FINE COPY OF MATISSE'S LAST BOOK (MATISSE, HENRI.) Orléans, Charles, Duc d'. Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans. 54 color lithographed plates by Matisse; text lithographed from his handwriting with lively color borders. Folio, 410x265 mm, 16x10 1/2 inches, original lithographed wrappers; glassine dust jacket; custom grey cloth clamshell box with spine label. Paris: Tériade, (1950)

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number 808 of 1230 copies signed by matisse. a lovely copy of his last illustrated book. The poems were written out in Matisse's hand and framed by his own borders in a repetition of the fleur-de-lys in various colored crayons, much like an illuminated manuscript. "In no other of Matisse's books does one feel the same sense of the artist's pleasure in his work as he plays here his subtle games with children's crayons"--Barr, pages 272-273, 560. Chapon 297-98; Rauch 174; Duthuit 28; Ray, The Artist & the Book 202.