Oceanie, le ciel, - Oceania, The Sky - Cut-outs with flying birds of Tahiti by Henri Matisse, blue Poster

Océanie, le ciel, - Oceania, The Sky - Composition with silhouettes of flying birds, plants, leaves, and sea creatures of Tahiti by Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Blue 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, an...

Collections featuring original artwork of illustrator and writer Moira Risen and carefully curated collections of digitally restored and cleaned illustrations from artists of the Golden Age, vintage botanical drawings, advertising posters from the early 1900's, vintage pictorial maps, traditional Chinese flower and bird paintings and some selected, licensed works of modernist painters. With licensing inquiries or any other questions please contact Moira personally via this email. You find more information about her and her creative projects on her personal website and on her blog. About Moira's artwork: 'I rather label my creations illustrations than classic fine art pieces because almost always there's a story (or at least a fragment...