Artist:
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Henri Matisse Charles d'Orléans Tériade, Paris Mourlot Freres, Paris
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Title:
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The Poems of Charles of Orléans
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Date:
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February 25, 1950
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Medium:
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Color lithographs, letterpress
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Dimensions:
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16 x 10 3/8 in. (40.64 x 26.35 cm)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Bruce B. Dayton
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Location:
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Gallery 359
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In creating this illustrated book Matisse strove to fulfill two differing goals. On the one hand he wanted to visualize the courtly elegance of these late medieval poems and conceived of his edition as a modern painted manuscript. Matisse copied each poem in a handwritten script that emulates the poetâs late Gothic calligraphic style.
On the other hand Matisse envisaged his illustrations in terms of a childâs workbook. By producing colored lithographic images Matisse conveyed the spontaneous joy he experienced when reading Charles dâOrléansâ poems.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Matisse, Henri
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1869 - 1954
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Name:
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d'Orléans, Charles
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Role:
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Author
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Life Dates:
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France
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Name:
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Tériade, Paris
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Role:
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Publisher
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Nationality:
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French
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Name:
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Mourlot Freres, Paris
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Role:
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Printer
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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France
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Mark Watermark:
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Classification:
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Books
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Physical Description:
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54 color lithographs; 2 color lithographs on covers; lithographed text in artist's hand, printed in black within lithographed borders
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , , Paris
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Edition:
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Edition of 1230; 674/1230
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Accession #:
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B.75.3
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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