Henri Matisse: La Piscine I ryden Hero and villain strike a

Hero and villain strike a power pose in this DC Comics figurine by Jim Shore

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The limited edition portfolio took two years to prepare and complete

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Henri Matisse: La Piscine I ryden Hero and villain strike aHenri Matisse: La Piscine I La Revue Verve, Vol. IX, Nos. 35 36 (1958) This lithograph is sourced from the monumental 1958 double issue of La Revue Verve, titled Les Dernires uvres de Matisse (The Last Works of Matisse). The series is considered the definitive posthumous tribute to the artist's final creative period. Each piece was created between 1950 and 1954 at the absolute zenith of Henri Matisse's revolutionary paper "cut out" (gouaches dcoups)