Name: HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Brand: Bédouine au grand voile
Price: 26000.00 USD
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HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)
Bédouine au grand voile
aquatint, on annam appliqué to wove paper, 1947, signed in pencil, numbered 9/25 (there were also five artist's proofs), with full margins, in generally good condition
Image: 12¹⁄₂ x 9⁷⁄₈ in. (318 x 251 mm.)
Sheet: 20 x 15 in. (508 x 381 mm.)

Estate of the artist.
By descent from the above to the present owner.

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Matisse’s interest in North African culture was first shaped by his travels to Algeria and Morocco in the early twentieth century. The Bédouine prints and drawings of the 1940s revisit those encounters, distilling elements of Islamic and North African dress, pattern, and portraiture into spare, elegant form. The women—sometimes veiled, sometimes unveiled—are conceived not as portraits but as archetypes, embodying the artist’s enduring fascination with line and rhythm.