Henri Matisse: La Gerbe comicart he committed himself to creating

he committed himself to creating one hundred ocean murals around the world as a gift to communities

His work first garnered interest in the 1990s when he ushered in a new style of painting

Hand inked comic strip by Bloom County comic artist Berke Breathed created in 1981

His artistic style not only caputred the likeness of these legedary figures but also silently told the story behind the portrayal

Henri Matisse: La Gerbe comicart he committed himself to creatingHenri Matisse: La Gerbe La Revue Verve, Vol. IX, Nos. 35 36 (1958) This lithograph is sourced from the monumental 1958 double issue of La Revue Verve, titled Les Dernires uvres de Matisse (The Last Works of Matisse). The series is considered the definitive posthumous tribute to the artist's final creative period. Each piece was created between 1950 and 1954 at the absolute zenith of Henri Matisse's revolutionary paper "cut out" (gouaches dcoups)