Madame Matisse (bleu) III

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By Helen Gørrill
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

54 × 54 × 4 cm

Materials:

graphite, spray paint and collage on archival paper, framed

Primary Medium:

Painting

Medium
2014
Edition of 1.
Signed on Front
Ready to display
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This is one of a new series of works inspired by Matisse's esteemed Cut-Outs exhibition at the Tate. Here I have combined my specialism of the human form, transcribed from Matisse's original nude drawings of odalisques. The works are created from graphite, spray paint and collaged elements selected from an ongoing archive of Modern Painters and Frieze magazine, as well as vintage original 1950s French periodicals. This text is then finely cut and placed to draw the line of the body as collage. Madame Matisse is framed within a really smart white Italian-made birch frame that is very contemporary and clean cut, projecting and complementing this urban work. Rave reviews of the Matisse exhibition have led to a renewed interest in collage and celebration of the female form (Matisse's females are the most demanded of all his works at the secondary market, fetching up to $20 million). Matisse's motto 'to think like a child' has led to a return to freedom of painting with saturated colours and simplified forms rather than the restriction of creating a photo-realist or illustrative work. My Phd in contemporary British painting investigates how a painting achieves high secondary market/auction prices, and this has impacted upon my practice accordingly.

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