Color lithograph, from papier gouache-découpé, signed and dated on the plate.
Bibliography: Claude Duthuit, Catalog raisonné des ouvrages illustrés n.139. (mm. 315x149).
Perfect example, plate out of text for Dernières Œuvres de Matisse for Verve 35-36, printed by Fernand Mourlot for the publisher Emmanuel Tériade in 1958. Perfect conservation with intact margins.