LES FAUVES, Georges Duthuit, 1949. Pochoir cover designed by Henri Matisse

A beautifully-produced study of the Fauve artists, with an original pochoir cover design by the Henri Matisse. Duthuit’s text looks at the development of Fauvism as a movement and continues by exploring the work of the Fauve artists, Braque, Derain, Van Dongen, Dufy, Friesz, Manguin, Marquet, Matisse, Puy and Vlaminck. The text is generously illustrated. [Les Fauves. Georges Duthuit. Cover design by Henri Matisse. Editions des Trois Collines. Geneve. 1949. First edition. Wrappers, with an original pochoir wrap-around design by Henri Matisse. Many monochrome text illustrations and tipped-in colour plates. 325 x 240mm.]