Title: ELLE Y POSE SA JOUE . . . ELLE L'EMBRASSE...(Variant I) 
Artist: Henri Matisse
Category: Modern Master
Medium: Linocut
Framed: Yes
Height: 9 5/8"
Width: 7 1/16"

Linocut printed in black ink on white Rives wove paper.
In pristine condition, printed on a sheet with deckled edges all around.

One of 71 full page linocut plates (apart from the cover and many designs and illuminations in the text also created in linocut) illustrating the Henry de Montherlant text. The impression were printed from the artist’s original linoleum blocks by Marthe Fequet and Pierre Baudier, Paris, and issued in the two volume album “Pasiphae/Chant de Minos.”
Bearing the artist’s estate moogram blindstamp lower right.
A richly printed impression of the definitive state.
c. 1944