Gastronomad #4 July - August 2011
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BØN·APPETIT<br />
3. “The Art Books of Henri Matisse<br />
An astonishing exhibition of art<br />
books by one of the greatest artists<br />
of the twentieth century has<br />
gone on public display for the<br />
first time in Europe at Dublin’s<br />
Chester Beatty Library.<br />
In addition to this summer exhibition,<br />
visitors to the Library can<br />
also see the permanent collection,<br />
spread over two floor galleries.<br />
The Matisse exhibition features<br />
text and original illustrations<br />
from four of the most artistically<br />
significant books by Henri<br />
Matisse (1869-1954), including<br />
the famous Jazz, which<br />
contains the iconic Icarus, one<br />
of the most widely reproduced<br />
28 Gas�tron�ø�mad<br />
images, ever. Known for his use<br />
of bold color, fluid shapes and a<br />
cut-out printing technique, Matisse<br />
who died in 1954, created<br />
a body of work that also included<br />
drawings. Though he didn’t begin<br />
his work with illustrated books until<br />
his late sixties when he was in<br />
poor health, he considered them<br />
among the works of which he was<br />
most proud.<br />
Two Matisse books from Chester<br />
Beatty Library’s own collection<br />
are also on display: Poèmes de<br />
Charles d’Orléans, which is inscribed<br />
from Matisse to Sir Alfred<br />
Chester Beatty, and a copy of Matisse’s<br />
illustrated version of James<br />
Joyce’s Ulysses (1935), which was<br />
acquired by the Library in 2009.
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