Matisse   (1881 - 1973)




Et Je Me Reposerai Enfin Dans Le Rien (Variant II)
Original linocut printed in black ink on white Rives wove paper.
Image size: 9 5/8 x 7 1/16 inches
Sheet size: 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
1944

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Bearing the artist's estate monogram blindstamp in the paper lower right. A richly printed impression of the definitive state from the edition of 100, numbered "96/100" in pencil in the lower left corner of the sheet (there were 25 additional impressions numbered in Roman numerals, for an overall edition of 125). One of seventy-one full page linocut plates and many designs and illuminations in the text also created in linocut) illustrating the Henry de Montherlant text "Chant de Minos (Les Cretois)." The impressions were printed from the artist's original linoleum blocks by Marthe Fequet and Pierre Baudier, Paris, and published by Les hetitiers de l'artiste in the two volume album Pasiphae/Chant de Minos, Paris, 1981.

In pristine condition, printed on a sheet with deckled edges all around.

Claude Duthuit no. 38


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