Henri Matisse – Catalogue Raisonné of Illustrated Works, com - Lot 257

Henri Matisse – Catalogue Raisonné of Illustrated Works, compiled in collaboration with Françoise Garnaud. Edited by Claude Duthuit. Paris, 1988. Introduction by Jean Guichard-Meili (1891–1973) – 1988 France (2,000 copies) – vol. (XXXVII-509) pp., b/w and color ill., 32 cm – French, English ISBN: 2-904852-01-8. Contains: “In the Light of Great Books in Bloom” / J.-G. M. Books. Unfinished Books and Various Studies. Various Illustrations, Books. Various Illustrations, Magazines, Programs, Albums, Catalogs. Excerpt from “How I Made My Books,” a text by Henri Matisse published in “Anthology of Books Illustrated by Painters and Sculptors of the School of Paris,” Skira (1946), reproduced in this volume: “I’d like to say a few words about linoleum engraving. [...] I have often thought that this very simple medium is comparable to that of the violin with its bow: a surface, a gouge—four taut strings and a horsehair bow. The gouge, like the bow, is directly linked to the engraver’s sensitivity.”