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[Portrait of Henri Matisse] – Vintage Wall Art

[Portrait of Henri Matisse], 1933 May 20. — historic photograph
[Portrait of Henri Matisse], 1933 May 20.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Portrait of Henri Matisse], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Portrait of Henri Matisse]

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Dated May 20, 1933, this gelatin silver print shows Henri Matisse, the French painter whose bold color and simplified line made him a leading figure of modern art. Carl Van Vechten, a writer and photographer who turned his camera on many painters, musicians, and writers of the period, made the portrait. The print is catalogued in his celebrity series, which the Library of Congress received from the Van Vechten estate in 1966. Matisse was in his sixties when the picture was taken, and portraits like this one from the 1930s help show how artists of his generation were presented to the public.

Created / published1933 May 20.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs.
NotesTitle derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXIII C 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a LOT which in turn forms part of the Carl Van Vechten photograph collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsMatisse, Henri,--1869-1954.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,221 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119977

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