%C2%A9 Succession H. Matisse %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York
Lithographs, letterpress; bound volumeexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more B.91.5.49
Henri Matisse created his illustrations for this project before the author’s text had been completed. The story, written by his son-in-law, Georges Duthuit, was a fictional account of the meeting between a modern civilized society and a "primitive" one, that of Cimmérie, which he based on North American Inuits.
Because of the nature of the subject, Matisse relied upon second-hand sources for his illustrations: photography, films, reference books, and Inuit masks.
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