Oceanie, le ciel, - Oceania, The Sky - Cut-outs with flying birds of Tahiti by Henri Matisse, beige
by Henri E B Matisse
Title
Oceanie, le ciel, - Oceania, The Sky - Cut-outs with flying birds of Tahiti by Henri Matisse, beige
Artist
Henri E B Matisse
Medium
Mixed Media - Screen-printed Linen
Description
Océanie, le ciel, - Oceania, The Sky - Composition with silhouettes of flying birds, plants, leaves, and sea creatures of Tahiti by Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Beige (original) color version.
Océanie, le ciel, and its pendant composition, Oceanie, la mer - Oceania, The Sea - are screen-printed linen wall-hangings created between 1946-48, based upon cut-out paper maquettes reflecting on Matisse's memories of a 1930 voyage to Tahiti.
Matisse's words about this composition, "This panel, printed on linen—white for the motifs and beige for the background—forms, together with a second panel, a wall tapestry composed during reveries which came fifteen years after a voyage to Oceania. From the first, the enchantments of the sky there, the sea, the fish, and the coral in the lagoons, plunged me into the inaction of total ecstasy. With my eyes wide open I absorbed everything as a sponge absorbs liquid. It is only now that these wonders have returned to me, with tenderness and clarity, and have permitted me, with protracted pleasure, to execute these two panels"
More Matisse cut-outs available in the collection.
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