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HENRI MATISSE Haïtienne.
Lithograph, 1945. 400x3000 mm; 15 1/2x11 3/4 inches (sheet), full margins. Signed and numbered 181/200 in pencil, lower right. Published by Black Sun Press, Paris. From the deluxe American edition of Portfolio II, with the original complete text, illustrations and paper folder, as issued. A very good impression of this scarce lithograph in its original issue.
Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly was a literary journal edited by Caresse Crosby and published by Black Sun Press, Paris. It ran from 1945 to 1947, and published avant-garde writers and artists with the intention of introducing them to the American public. The present work appeared alongside reproductions of works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar and Paul Eluard. Each issue had a print run of 1,000, and the deluxe copies (only 200) included an original artwork. Matisse (1869-1954) had created the current work, originally titled L'Antillaise, exclusively for Portfolio II. After publishing Portfolio VI in the summer of 1947, Crosby relocated to the United States and ceased publication due to wartime hardships. Duthuit 567.
