Libro Matisse At Villa Le Reve

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Editorial: THAMES AND HUDSON LTD

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN: 9780500511756

Reseña:  Henri Matisse lived at the villa Le Reve in Vence from 1943 to 1948. Here he created a sensuous world bringing to Vence all the objects without which he could not draw and paint - jugs vases tables and chairs shells fabrics. A young Russian-born photographer Helerie Adant often came to visit her cousin Lydia Delectorskaya who was Matisses model and assistant from 1935 onwards. Adants photographs are a unique record a series of freeze-frames that reveal the nature of Matisses preparations for his art: perhaps an ornate Venetian chair partners a wrought-iron table displaying a yellow pitcher and melons a pot of lilies or an octagonal Moroccan table are added. Matisse hat on head draws his Haitian model wearing a frilled blouse that Lydia has provided for the sitting. Marie-France Boyers text evokes the particular atmosphere of Le Reve where Matisse produced Yellow and Blue Interior of 1946 Large Red Interior of 1948 and many other important works. This beautifully designed book reproduces over fifty of Helene Adants backstage photographs as well as several of Matisses famous Vence interiors in colour and a number of drawings. At the heart of the book lie Matisses props as they are arranged and rearranged eventually to be fixed in some of the greatest paintings of the 20th century.