Blue Nude IV, Henri Matisse

Blue Nude IV Original Color Lithograph after a paper cut-out and gouache, 1952 This work was produced under Matisse’s supervision for a special issue of Verve. He died before the work was published and the volume of Verve then became a tribute to Matisse titled “Les Dernieres Oeuvres de Matisse” (“The Last Works of Matisse”). Signed and dated in the stone before Matisse’s death. Unframed.