October 5 - December 8 2001

Matisse Dessins

Press release

About the exhibition

The drawings exhibited by Patrice Trigano were executed, on the whole, between 1940 and 1950, that is to say in Matisse's last decade. The writing is different, pencil, pen or brush with ink, charcoal and stump where the form is sought, or freehand, approach the face or the epidermis to the graphics without smudges or reworks, except to tighten some closer to the contour. gain a better understanding of the subject.

Profil de femme regardant vers le bas, november 1939

Pen-and-ink drawing,

53,7 x 40,7 cm

Signed " H.M. " lower right

Visage de Femme, january 1947

Pen-and-ink drawing

38 x 28 cm 

Signed et dated " Hneri Matisse 47 " lower left

Exp: Aliquam libero explicabo.