MATISSE, Henri.

Six Signed Proofs of Original Etchings by Henri Matisse

…Made to Serve as Illustrations for Six Episodes in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' which have their Counterparts in Homer's 'Odyssey'.

Stock Code 109998

New York, The Print Club, 1935

£37,500.00 - £37,500.00

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£37,500.00

£37,500.00 - £37,500.00

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Rare suite of etchings, limited to only 150 sets, each plate signed in pencil by Matisse. Number 23 from an edition of 150. The plates depict episodes in the edition of James Joyce's Ulysses published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club and illustrated by Matisse. They comprise: 'The Calypso Episode'; 'Aeolus, Cave of the Winds'; 'The Cyclops'; 'The Episode of Nausicaä'; 'The Circle Episode'; and 'Symbolic Landscape: Ithaca.'

Limited edition, number 23 of 150 copies, numbered and signed by Matisse, folio (41.5 x 32 cm); complete set of six etchings on Arches vellum paper, each signed, numbered and captioned in pencil by Matisse; brown cloth folding portfolio.

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