Made by Henri Matisse / Icarus / 1947

Made by Henri Matisse
Icarus
1947
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Creator Name: Matisse, Henri
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: French, 1869-1954
Creator Name-CRT: Made by Henri Matisse
Title: Icarus
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Creation Start Date: 1947
Creation End Date: 1947
Creation Date: 1947
Object Type: Prints
Materials and Techniques: Color pochoir
Dimensions: Image: 16-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches (41.9 x 26.cm); Sheet: 16-1/2 x 25.2 inches (41.9 x 64 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1983.1009.8
Credit Line: Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace, 1983
Copyright: ? Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Rights: http://www.arsny.com
Context:

This bold and playful image is one of twenty plates Matisse created to illustrate his groundbreaking book 'Jazz.' The illustrations derive from maquettes of cut and pasted colored papers, which were then printed using a stencil technique known as 'pochoir.' Here, the mythological figure Icarus is presented in a simplified form floating against a royal blue nighttime sky. Matisse's flat, abstracted forms and large areas of pure color marked an important change in the direction of his later work and ultimately influenced 'hard-edge' artists of the 1960s like Ellsworth Kelly and Al Held.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1983.1009.8
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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