id: 162083 accession number: 2001.37 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.37 updated: 2022-06-24 09:01:10.858000 The Large Woodcut, 1906. Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954). Woodcut; sheet: 57.2 x 45.5 cm (22 1/2 x 17 15/16 in.); image: 44.7 x 38.6 cm (17 5/8 x 15 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of various donors to the department of Prints and Drawings 2001.37 © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: The Large Woodcut title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1906 creation date earliest: 1906 creation date latest: 1906 current location: creditline: Gift of various donors to the department of Prints and Drawings copyright: © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: France, early 20th Century technique: woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Woodcut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Duthuit Vol.I, Matisse 317 --- CREATORS * Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 57.2 x 45.5 cm (22 1/2 x 17 15/16 in.); Image: 44.7 x 38.6 cm (17 5/8 x 15 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: 50 support materials: description: Antique Laid Paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed and numbered in black ink, below image: 39/ 50 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection opening date: 2003-08-17T00:00:00 Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In 1905, Matisse and other artists like Albert Marquet, Andre Derain, and Raoul Dufy exhibited spontaneous, brightly colored paintings, so that the artists were labeled "fauves," or wild beasts. The Fauves were also attracted by the expressive possibilities of woodcuts. Influenced by Paul Gauguin's prints and the reduction of form and simplification of line in African and Oceanic art, these young French artists found the physical process of gouging, cutting, and whittling woodblocks akin to the carving they so admired in tribal sculpture and masks. Matisse studied the human figure throughout his career, producing black ink drawings of unusual strength and energy during the winter of 1905 and 1906. Freely executed, they convey a new evocative power and emphasize contour, the most important element in a drawing for Matisse. He translated three of these drawing into woodcuts. The most important, The Large Woodcut, exemplifies how the artist experimented with composing the image on one plane. Model and background are conveyed with the same dynamic strokes, so the boldly distorted figure, now flattened, is part of the overall ornamental pattern that extends to the boundaries of the design. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Now on View at the CMA,” July 11, 2001, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4396 --- IMAGES