Decorations - Fruits Lithograph,

1952Color lithograph after a paper cut-out and gouachePublished in the deluxe art review, Verve. This work was produced under Matisse’s supervision for a special issue of Verve. He died before the work was published and the volume of Verve then became a tribute to Matisse titled “Les Dernieres Oeuvres de Matisse” (“The Last Works of Matisse”).Signed and dated in the stone before Matisse’s death. Framed.