The Folkwang Museum in Essen is showing 250 prints by Picasso, Matisse, Miró and Chagall, thereby also celebrating the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who inspired many of them.
The August issue of the art magazine verve in 1939, the cover in the history of the Paris magazine was probably the most technically sophisticated. Henri Matisse used 28 different colors for the five stylized flowers and the title, which appears minimalist in appearance. Processing them all in one lithograph required enormous effort. The now legendary Parisian printer Mourlot, which had already been involved for two years at the time verve-publisher Tériade, mastered this challenge brilliantly: The title page, which can now be seen in color on black in the exhibition “Made in Paris” at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, is a small masterpiece that was sold in much larger numbers than it was in most other Matisse originals would have been possible.