Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered. Paper Size: 10 x 8 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the album, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Éditions des Quatre Chemins, Paris; lithographic plates rendered by Daniel Jacomet & Cie, Paris; printed by F. Dutal & Cie, Paris, December 15, 1925. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album was printed in C issues on vélin d'Arches with an original issue by Henri-Matisse, numbered from I to C, and M issues on vélin Lafuma. Printing was completed on December fifteenth thousand nine hundred and twenty-five by F. Dutal & Cie, in Paris; the boards having been executed by the Daniel Jacomet & Cie workshops in Paris. 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.