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Poster for Exhibition Recognizing 25 Years of Prints from the Mourlot Studios and its Centenary (Kléber Gallery)

Artist Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)
Title Poster for Exhibition Recognizing 25 Years of Prints from the Mourlot Studios and its Centenary (Kléber Gallery) (Affiches d’Expositions Realisees 25 ans par l’Iprimerie Mourlot. . . à la Galerie Kléber)
Date 1952
Medium Color lithograph on paper
Dimensions Image: 25 1/2 x 19 9/16 in. (64.8 x 49.7 cm)
Sheet: 25 1/2 x 19 9/16 in. (64.8 x 49.7 cm)
Credit Line Collection of Diether Thimme, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 98.550

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This design was made from a paper cut-out collage by Henri Matisse composed for a poster exhibition organized to celebrate the centennial of the Mourlot Brothers' printing house. Its composition is one of the earliest examples of pure abstract art marketed successfully to a wide audience.


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Publisher Mourlot Studios, Paris

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