Matisse Icare Plate 8 of Jazz Skateboard

$220.00 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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In 1942, Henri MATISSE was asked to create a book of colored paper cut-outs. He decided to use his then-preferred and revolutionary technique of cut-outs, filling the pages with carefully crafted collages and clashing colors on gouache-painted paper. The result, on one particular page, was a dark silhouette with a passionately red heart, falling out of a sky of stars.  This, of course, references the fate of Icarus and is said to be inspired by the artist’s concerns over his wife and daughter’s dedication to…