Le Repos du Modèle

Le Repos du Modèle is a wonderful artist proof, unnumbered, on China paper with wide margins.

First state (1/2) .

This artwork is one of the 16 lithographs from the portfolio " Essai sur l'histoire de la lithographie en France. Les Peintres lithographs de Manet à Matisse. Album de lithographies originales ".

In excellent condirtions, including a white cardboard passepartout.

Henri Matisse , a very important exponent of Post-Impressionism, was interested in allowing his models to find poses that were naturally rather than artificially positioned. He said: “ When I take a new model, I intuit the pose that will best suit her from her unselfconscious attitudes of repose, and then I become the slave of that pose ".