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HENRI MATISSE Jazz: Le Cheval, L'Écuyère et le Clown.
Color pochoir, 1947. 420x650 mm; 16 5/8x25 1/2 inches (sheet), full margins. Edition of 270. Published by Tériade, Paris. From Jazz. A brilliant, richly-inked and fresh impression with vibrant colors and no sign of wear.
In the latter years of his life, after battling cancer and confinment to a wheelchair in 1941, Matisse began to focus his practice on creating images using paper cutouts. One of his first fully-realized works to use this technique were the 20 prints for an illustrated book entitled Jazz. The prints in Jazz replicated the original paper cutouts through a pochior, or a fine stencil technique. The majority of the prints were inspired by the theater, folklore and the circus, and are accompanied by pages of large handwritten text on the artist's thoughts and inspiration from music. The title Jazz is intended to engender themes of improvisation and energy. The planes of pure color and bold abstracted forms present in Matisse's Jazz pochoirs are sited as a major influence on the following generation of artists that proscribed to similar "hard-edged" abstraction. Duthuit Books 22.
