Linocut on vélin pur fil Johannot a la forme paper. Paper size: 10.24 x 7.48 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: signed in pencil and unnumbered, as issued, from the edition of 50. Notes: From the folio, Le Poème pulvérisé, 1947. Published by Fontaine, Paris; printed by Maître-Imprimeur, Raymond Seguin, Paris, May 2, 1947. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), From this folio, completed to be printed on May 2, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Seven on the presses of Maître-Imprimeur, Raymond Seguin, 10, Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre, Paris, it was drawn: L examples on pur fil Johannot a la forme, numbered from I to L, and XV non-commerce examples, marked H.C. These LXV examples are each accompanied by an original engraving by Henri Matisse and signed by the artist and the author. The plate was destroyed after the draw; MCC examples on simili-japon, numbered from I a MCC, the entire print run constituting the original edition. HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) One of the undisputed masters of 20th century art, was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labeled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.