Blue act
| Blue act II |
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| Henri Matisse , 1952 |
| Gouache cut |
| 116.2 x 88.9 cm |
| Center Georges Pompidou, Paris
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Blue Nude ( Nu bleu ) is the name of a series of around twelve gouache cuts by Henri Matisse , which he created in 1952. They depict sitting or standing female nudes in an abstract form and are among his last works. Around 1943 the paper cut became the main means of expression in the work of the artist, who was often confined to bed due to illness, so that around 1948 he gave up painting in favor of paper cuts. Matisse commissioned assistants to color sheets of paper with gouache from which he cut out his figures or free forms. Matisse called this technique "drawing with scissors". The “blue nudes” stand out against a white paper ground and look like sculptures. The series was made a few years before his death. The art dealer Heinz Berggruen exhibited the paper cuts for the first time in 1953 in his Paris gallery and in 2003 in a special exhibition in his Berggruen collection in Berlin .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Blue Nude. Metropolitan Museum of Art, accessed March 31, 2009 .
- ↑ art-in-berlin: Henri Matisse - Papiers Découpés
