Matisse exhibition, Spain.

Title: Woman in Green with a Carnation
This beautiful original poster belongs to an exhibition about Henri Matisse with his  paintings and drawings coming from the Pushkin museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) which took place in Madrid, Spain in 1988 at Reina Sofia Museum.
Scene depicts "Woman with a Red Carnation", this work was painted in the summer of 1909 during a stay in Provence, in the south of France. Scholars have had no difficulty identifying the sitter - who appears in a number of works created that summer - in this clear portrait likeness: the straight back and slender neck, the confident holding of the head, the pointed oval of the face. But this painting is not intended to be a portrait; the emphasis is on the supra-individual, something far beyond the sitter's character, and thus, ignoring the sitter's identity, the painting bears a neutral title, "Woman in Green". The profound, intense, complex green colour is not simply decorative, it arouses a sense of the cool of the watery depths and of dense vegetation, it becomes the embodiment of mystery and life. Yet the magic of the dominant green cannot prevent us from perceiving the human figure, firmly and simply outlined, totally enclosed within itself. The young woman is calm, majestic and a little mysterious, her bottomless black eyes looking rather into themselves than at us. On the light green blouse, dead in the centre of the painting, burns the sole bright patch, the red carnation.
Artist: Enri Matisse
Style: expressionism
Material: paper
Size: 92x69cm
Made in 1989
Publisher: Tipografia Emporium
Languages:Spanish
This is not a recent issue, replica or tourist souvenir.