Matisse, Henri, La Noire (charcoal), 1944

For Henri Matisse, the 1940s were an extremely flourishing period for illustrated books. After Florilège des Amours by Pierre de Ronsard, Poésies by Charles d’Orléans, Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos by Henry de Montherlant, the artist immersed himself in Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. Executed in the summer of 1944, in charcoal facing the model Carmen Helouis, of Haitian origin, La Noire fed into the line-drawn faces of Les Fleurs du Mal inspired by the young woman. It featured in the Matisse exhibition at Galerie Maeght in December 1945.

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1944

Charcoal on Arches paper.

52 x 40.5 cm.

Signed Matisse and dated August 44 by the artist lower left.

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