11/10/2026
Henri Matisse’s Nature morte au buffet vert; Gouache stencil over lithograph, printed to velin paper in 1930.
The suite was printed at the renowned and trusted workshops of L'Atelier Desjobert, Paris, who specialised in pochoir and fine lithography. They did not use standard mechanical colour presses for the plates. Instead layers of rich, opaque gouache were painstakingly brushed by hand through metal stencils. Because the ink sits thickly on top of the paper rather than soaking flatly into it, the prints possess an intense, tactile, and paint-like quality.