Itemnumber: 333241

This is a lithograph Arches paper from artist Henri Matisse titled Zorah. la Robe Jaune (Zorah, The Yellow Dress).Matisse made two trips to Morocco and while there met Zorah, a beautiful woman that he painted on both trips. The original was painted in 1912 and is in an unknown private collection. Zorah is shown proudly seated looking at the viewer wrapped in a saffron yellow robe. This piece has been signed in the plate by the artist in the lower left corner. This limited edition lithograph in 1955 was printed by Andre Sauret for Matisse's Portraits suite; a collection of portraits hand selected for reproduction by Matisse. The framed image measures 24"h x 20"w This suite is considered one of his most important because if the social and psychological inferences Matisse made with color and line. In 1940 Matisse decided to leave San Francisco and travel to Tahiti in his own words, "I will go to the islands, under the tropics, to see the night and the dawn light that must have an other density. The Pacific light is a deep gold tumbler in which one looks. I remember that when I arrived, I was disappointed but then, step by step, it was beautiful, beautiful, beautiful !"." He spent two months there absorbing the light, color and culture. Matisse (1869 - 1954)was a French artist known for his use of bold color, excellent draftsmanship, composition and line quality. In 1896 he exhibited 5 paintings in the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and the state bought two of his paintings. Even in his day he was considered an artist of great importance, he had the distinction of being admired by Pablo Picasso with whom he exchanged paintings in 1907. After World War I, Matisse had gained a high reputation and was an internationally recognized artist. In 1917 he left Paris and settled in Nice in the South of France where he remained until the end of his life. In 1925 he received the French Legion of Honor award.

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