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FOR SALE HERE IS ONE SIGNED HENRI MATISSE ILLUSTRATION, one of four color illustrations included in the circa 1930 portfolio about the French Fauvist painter HENRI MATISSE, VON GOTTHARD JEDLICKA, VERLAG CHRONIQUES DU JOUR, PARIS. MOMA has Exemplar #197 OUT OF 200 of this portfolio, according to a letter I have from MOMA dated 1985. My portfolio says EXEMPLAR # 3.
I have the portfolio and 2 of the 4 illustrations. FOR SALE HERE IS ONE ILLUSTRATION ONLY. When I purchased this in the early 1980's, I was told it was a pochoir illustration. The image is 7 7/8 by 6 1/2 inches; the excellent frame measures 13 by 12 inches. Please ask any & all questions you may have and I will answer them to the best of my ability.
DESCRIPTION OF POCHOIR PROCESS by Bernard Chauveau taken from Article in FRANCE, SUMMER 2006 pages 22-23: "The technique known as pochoir illustration, creates a vivid, almost three-dimensional effect." "Pochoir was practiced in China a thousand years ago, and its origins go back even further." "It reached its apogee in France in the 1920's and 1930's, but today it's almost a lost art." "The process involves using an instrument with a steel point to cut stencils out of soft sheets of metal. Each one corresponds to a color in the work of art that is being reproduced. The watercolor, gouache or ink is then applied with curved brushes made of animal hair. Complex illustrations may involve as many as 250 stencils, each of which must be perfectly positioned." As recently as the 1960s and '70s, there were about 10" pochoir workshops "in France alone, but demand had dried up as offset printing made it possible to print much greater quantities."