This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $145 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
Based on Matisse's original 1955 cut-out composition, La Gerbe with vibrant green, orange, reds, blue and black leaves. The original is currently on exhibit in the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Sponsored by the UCAL Art Council, the exhibition that traveled to the UCLA Art Galleries, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Signed in the plate at lower right "HM 53";