The King Of The Cut-Outs' by Sharon Christian, 1998 Vancouver BC in Duncan, British Columbia for sale

Part of Vancouver Artist Sharon Christian's Tribute Series July 1998. Mixed Media, measurements: 4' 2" x 3' 5" All materials are acid free permanent paints on cotton rag with acid free backing and tape. Gold frame with Plexiglas. Purchased from artist for $1600.00
Please: Local buyers, Cash only.
A tribute to Matisse and his art in the last decade of the French artist's long life, when Matisse -- in a wheelchair, recovering from cancer and unable to paint as he once had -- used scissors and paper to create a series of big, bold and ambitious cut-outs. Matisse's paper works were the work of a man in his late 70s and 80s, they burst with life-affirming vitality cut in a single movement from painted sheets of paper in blue, red, yellow, green, orange, white and black. He cut them into shapes-- leaves, petals, swirls -- and into animal and human figures. "Most artists develop a late style but Matisse instead invented a new medium." Tate Modern Museum curator Nicholas Cullinan, London.