The Poems of Charles of Orléans, Henri Matisse, February 25, 1950, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

54 color lithographs; 2 color lithographs on covers; lithographed text in artist’s hand, printed in black within lithographed borders In creating this illustrated book Matisse strove to fulfill two differing goals. On the one hand he wanted to visualize the courtly elegance of these late medieval poems and conceived of his edition as a modern painted manuscript. Matisse copied each poem in a handwritten script that emulates the poet’s late Gothic calligraphic style. On the other hand Matisse envisaged his illustrations in terms of a child’s workbook. By producing colored lithographic images Matisse conveyed the spontaneous joy he experienced when reading Charles d’Orléans’ poems. Size: 16 x 10 3/8 in. (40.64 x 26.35 cm) Medium: Color lithographs, letterpress

Le Guignon (Jinx) (plate, page 8) from Poésies (Poems), Henri Matisse, 1932, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Louis E. Stern Collection Size: composition (irreg.): 12 11/16 × 8 ¾" (32.2 × 22.2 cm); page (each irreg.): 13 1/8 × 10 1/16" (33.4 × 25.5 cm) Medium: One from an illustrated book with thirty etchings (including supplementary plate)

The Round Table, 1929, Georges Braque