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Henri Matisse: Woman with a Shawl Lithograph - Henri Emile Benoit Matisse (French, 1869-1954) After: L13 (Woman with a Shawl), 1941, Lithograph from Themes et Variations, published 1943, edition of 950 (Duthuit books, 9), signed in plate. Verso is a description of the work by its previous owner, and a description of how the work was preserved (acid neutralized, matted and mounted on 100% on cotton RPG museum board in 1980. Matisse was known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is accepted as one of the most influential modern painters and crowned as the leader of Fauvism, a 20th century movement that favored a painterly style and bold, expressive use of color over the representational or naturalistic values of the Impressionist movement before.