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{{Infobox Artist| name = Henri Matisse| image = Portrait of Henri Matisse 1933 May 20.jpg| imagesize = 250px| caption = Photo of Henri Matisse taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1933.], Nord-Pas-de-Calais, [France| field = [painting, printmaking,
sculpture,
drawing, [Modernism, [1869 – November 3, 1954) was a France
artist, noted for his use of
color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a drawing, printmaker, and
Sculpture, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauvism (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. Wattenmaker, Richard J.; Distel, Anne, et al. (1993).
''Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation''.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-40963-7. p. 272
His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing is apparent, in a body of work spanning over a half-century, and won him recognition as a leading figure in
modern art.
Early life and education
Born
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis,
Nord-Pas-de-Calais,
France, he grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois in North-Eastern France, where his parents owned a seed business. He was their first son. In 1887 he went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in
Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification. He first started painting in 1889, when his mother had brought him art supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis. He discovered "a kind of paradise" as he later described it.Leymarie, Jean; Read, Herbert; Lieberman, William S. (1966),
Henri Matisse, UCLA Art Council, p.9. He decided to become an artist, deeply disappointing his father.Bärbel Küster. "Arbeiten und auf niemanden hören."
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6 July 2007. In
1891 he returned to Paris to study art at the
Académie Julian and became a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and
Gustave Moreau. Initially he painted still-lifes and landscapes in the traditional Flemish painting and was quite successful. In 1896 he exhibited 5 paintings in the salon of the
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and the state bought two of his paintings. Henri and Pierre Matisse,
Cosmopolis, No 2, January 1999 In 1897 and 1898, he visited the painter John Peter Russell on the island Belle Île off the coast of Brittany. Russell introduced him to impressionism and to the work of
Vincent van Gogh (who had been a good friend of Russell but was completely unknown at the time). Matisse's style changed completely, and he would later say "Russell was my teacher, and Russell explained
colour theory to me."
Influenced by the works of the post-Impressionism Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin,
Vincent van Gogh and
Paul Signac, and also by Japanese art, "Henri Matisse" (bio),
FamousPeople.com (Splashweb), 2004-12-06, webpage:
http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/h/henrimatisse.html FP-HMatisse.
he made colour a crucial element of his paintings. Many of his paintings from 1899 to 1905 make use of a pointillism technique adopted from Signac. In 1898 he went to London to study the paintings of
J. M. W. Turner and then went on a trip to Corsica.
With the model Caroline Joblau, he had a daughter, Marguerite, born in 1894. In 1898 he married Amélie Noellie Parayre; the two raised Marguerite together and had two sons, Jean (born 1899) and Pierre (born 1900). Marguerite often served as a model for Matisse.
Fauvism
His first solo exhibition was in
1904, without much success. His fondness for bright and expressive colour became more pronounced after he moved southwards in
1905 to work with Andre Derain and spent time on the French Riviera. The paintings of this period are characterized by flat shapes and controlled lines, with expression dominant over detail.
At the 1905 Salon d'Automne, several artists exhibited paintings with wild, often dissonant colors to express emotions, without regard for the subject's natural colors. Matisse showed
Open Window and
Woman with the Hat at the Salon. The artists were soon called
Fauves (wild beasts) and
Fauvism was born. Matisse was recognized as one of its leaders, along with André Derain; the two were friendly rivals of a sort, each with his own followers. Other members were
Georges Braque,
Raoul Dufy and
Maurice Vlaminck. The
Symbolist painter
Gustave Moreau was the movement's inspirational teacher; a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he pushed his students to think outside of the lines of formality and to follow their visions.
In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire, commenting about Matisse in an article published in La Falange, said, "We are not here in the presence of an extravagant or an extremist undertaking: Matisse's art is eminently reasonable."
Picasso and Braque pioneering cubism William Rubin, published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, copyright 1989, ISBN 0 87070-676-4 p.348.But Matisse's work of the time also encountered vehement criticism, and it was difficult for him to provide for his family. His controversial 1907 painting
Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) was burned in effigy at the
Armory Show in Chicago in 1913. "Matisse, Henri." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Accessed 30 July 2007
The decline of the Fauvist movement, after
1906, did nothing to affect the rise of Matisse; many of his finest works were created between 1906 and 1917, when he was an active part of the great gathering of artistic talent in
Montparnasse, even though he did not quite fit in, with his conservative appearance and strict
bourgeois work habits.
Matisse had a long association with the Russian art collector
Sergei Shchukin. He created one of his major works
The Dance (painting) specially for Shchukin as part of a two painting commission, the other painting being
Music, 1909. Matisse painted an extra (second) version of
The Dance (painting) that is in the collection of
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Gertrude Stein, Académie Matisse, and the Cone sisters
,
St. Petersburg, RussiaAround 1904 he met
Pablo Picasso, who was 12 years younger than him. The Unknown Matisse..., Radio National, 8 June 2005 The two became life-long friends as well as rivals and are often compared; one key difference between them is that Matisse drew and painted from nature, while Picasso was much more inclined to work from imagination. The subjects painted most frequently by both artists were women and
still lifes, with Matisse more likely to place his figures in fully realized interiors. Matisse and Picasso were first brought together at the Paris
salon of Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas. During the first decade of the 20th century United States in Paris Gertrude Stein, her brothers
Leo Stein, Michael Stein and Michael's wife Sarah were important collectors and supporters of Matisse's paintings. In addition Gertrude Stein's two American friends from
Baltimore, Maryland Clarabel and Etta Cone became major patrons of Matisse and Picasso, collecting hundreds of their paintings. The Cone collection is now exhibited in the Baltimore Museum of Art. Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art. Accessed July 29, 2007
His friends organized and financed the
Académie Matisse in Paris,a private and non-commercial school in which Matisse instructed young artists. It operated from 1911 until 1917. Hans Purrmann and Sarah Stein were amongst several of his most loyal students.
After Paris
In 1917 Matisse moved to
Cimiez on the
French Riviera, a suburb of the city of Nice. His work of the decade or so following this relocation shows a relaxation and a softening of his approach. This "return to order" is characteristic of much art of the post-
World War I period, and can be compared with the neoclassicism of Picasso and
Igor Stravinsky, and the return to traditionalism of André Derain.His orientalism odalisque paintings are characteristic of the period; while popular, some contemporary critics found this work shallow and decorative.
After 1930 a new vigor and bolder simplification appear in his work. American art collector
Albert C. Barnes convinced him to produce a large mural for the
Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia,
The Dance II, which was completed in 1932. The Foundation owns several dozen other Matisse paintings.
He and his wife of 41 years separated in 1939. In 1941 he was diagnosed with cancer and, following surgery, he started using a wheelchair. Until his death he would be cared for by a Russian woman, Lidia Delektorskaya, formerly one of his models. With the aid of assistants he set about creating cut paper collages, often on a large scale, called
gouaches découpés. His Blue Nudes series feature prime examples of this technique he called "painting with scissors"; they demonstrate the ability to bring his eye for colour and geometry to a new medium of utter simplicity, but with playful and delightful power.In 1947 he published
Jazz (Henri Matisse), a limited-edition book containing prints of colorful paper cut collages, accompanied by his written thoughts. In the 1940s he also worked as a graphic artist and produced black-and-white illustrations for several books.
Matisse, thoroughly unpolitical, was shocked when he heard that his daughter Marguerite, who had been active in the
Résistance during the war, was tortured and imprisoned in the
Ravensbrück concentration camp.
In 1951 he finished a four-year project of designing the interior, the glass windows and the decorations of the
Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire in
Vence. This project was the result of the close friendship between Matisse and Sister Jacques-Marie. He had hired her as a nurse and model in 1941 before she became a Dominican Nun and they met again in Vence and started the collaboration, a story related in her 1992 book
Henri Matisse: La Chapelle de Vence and in the 2003 documentary "A Model for Matisse". French Professor Directs "Model for Matisse", Carnegie Mellon Today, 30 June 2003. Accessed 30 July 2007.
Matisse died of a heart attack at the age of 84 in 1954. He is interred in the cemetery of the Monastère Notre Dame de Cimiez and a Matisse Museum was opened in the area.
Legacy
-1909,
The Back II, 1913,
The Back III 1916,
The Back IV, c.
1931,
Museum of Modern ArtThe first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was
Still Life with Geranium in 1910, exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne. Today, a Matisse painting can fetch as much as US $17 million. In 2002, a Matisse sculpture,
Reclining Nude I (Dawn), sold for US $9.2 million, a record for a sculpture by the artist.
Matisse's daughter Marguerite often aided Matisse scholars with insights about his working methods and his works. She died in 1982 while compiling a catalog of her father's work. Marguerite Duthuit, a Model In Art of Matisse, Her Father,
The New York Times, 3 April 1982
Matisse's son, Pierre Matisse, (1900-1989) opened an important modern art gallery in New York City during the 1930s. The Pierre Matisse Gallery which was active from 1931 until 1989 represented and exhibited many European artists and a few Americans and Canadians in New York often for the first time. He exhibited
Joan Miró,
Marc Chagall,
Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet,
André Derain,
Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier,
Paul Delvaux, Wilfredo Lam,
Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus, Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki,
Sam Francis, sculptors
Theodore Roszak (artist),
Raymond Mason and
Reg Butler, and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.
Matisse, Father & Son, by John Russell, published by Harry N. Abrams, NYC. Copyright John Russell 1999, pp.387-389 ISBN 0 81094378 6Metropolitan Museum exhibition of works from the Pierre Matisse Gallery, accessed online June 20, 2007, http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Matisse/collection_more.htm
Henri Matisse's grandson,
Paul Matisse, is an artist and inventor living in
Massachusetts. Matisse's great granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist in
2007.
Partial list of works
,
Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line), 1905, Statens Museum for Kunst,
Copenhagen, Denmark,
The Dance (painting) (second version), 1909 Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia,
Munich, Germany
- Woman Reading (1894), Musée National d'Art Moderne
- Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (1902), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- Green Stripe (1905)
- The Open Window (1905)
- Woman with a Hat (1905)
- Les toits de collioure (1905)
- Landscape at Collioure (1905)
- Le bonheur de vivre (1906)
- The Young Sailor II (1906)
- Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906)
- Madras Rouge (1907)
- Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907), Baltimore Museum of Art
- The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908)
- Bathers with a Turtle (1908), Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
- The Dance (painting) (1909)
- L'Atelier Rouge (1911)
- The Conversation (painting) (1908–1912)
- Zorah on the Terrace (1912)
- Le Rifain assis (1912)
- Le rideau jaune (the yellow curtain) (1915)
- The Window (painting) (1916), Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
- La lecon de musique (1917)
- The Painter and His Model (1917)
- Interior A Nice (1920)
- Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923), National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Yellow Odalisque (1926)
- The Dance II (1932), triptych mural (45 ft by 15 ft) in the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia
- Robe violette et Anemones (1937)
- Woman in a Purple Coat (1937)
- Le Reve de 1940 (the dream of 1940) (1940)
- La Blouse Roumaine (1940)
- Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1943)
- Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944), Honolulu Academy of Arts
- L'Asie (1946)
- Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947)
- Jazz (Henri Matisse) (1947)
- The Plum Blossoms (1948)
- Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire (1948 - 1951)
- Beasts of the Sea (1950)
- The Sorrows of the King (1952)
- Black Leaf on Green Background (1952)
- La Negresse (1952)
- Blue Nudes (1952)
- The Snail (1953)
- Le Bateau (1954) (This gouache created a minor stir because MOMA had mistakenly displayed it upside-down for 47 days in 1961.Nan Robertson. "Modern Museum is Startled by Matisse Picture" New York Times, 5 December 1961.)
Books by Matisse
Biographies
- Raymond Escholier. Matisse. A Portrait of the Artist and the Man. London, Faber & Faber, 1960.
- Lawrence Gowing. Matisse. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0195201574.
- Pierre Schneider. Matisse. New York, Rizzoli, 1984. ISBN 0847805468.
- Hilary Spurling. The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 1, 1869-1908. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1998. ISBN 0-679-43428-3.
- Hilary Spurling. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 2, The Conquest of Colour 1909 - 1954. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2005. ISBN 0-241-13339-4.
- John Russell, Matisse, Father & Son, published by Harry N. Abrams, NYC. Copyright John Russell 1999, ISBN 0 81094378 6
References
See also
External links
- Musée Matisse Nice
- Henri Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Matisse Gallery at Artst
- Henri Matisse at CGFA
- Current exhibitions and connection to galeries at Artfacts.Net
- Henri Matisse Gallery at MuseumSyndicate
- Artchive
- Henri Matisse at Olga's Gallery 158 pictures
- Matisse-Picasso
- Henri Matisse: A Virtual Art Gallery
- (I) in the MoMA Online Collection
- Matisse on Philo
- The Cone Sister Collection at The Baltimore Museum of Art
- Flam, Jack. Matisse in the Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001 ISBN 0-912298-73-1
- Matisse at Statens Museum for Kunst ("The Danish National Gallery")
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sculpture,
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{{Infobox Artist| name = Henri Matisse| image = Portrait of Henri Matisse 1933 May 20.jpg| imagesize = 250px| caption = Photo of Henri Matisse taken by
Carl Van Vechten, 1933.],
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, [France| field = [painting,
printmaking,
sculpture, drawing, [Modernism, [1869 – November 3,
1954) was a
France artist, noted for his use of
color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a
drawing, printmaker, and
Sculpture, but principally as a
painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century. Although he was initially labeled as a
Fauvism (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. Wattenmaker, Richard J.; Distel, Anne, et al. (1993).
''Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation''.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-40963-7. p. 272
His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing is apparent, in a body of work spanning over a half-century, and won him recognition as a leading figure in
modern art.
Early life and education
Born
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis,
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, he grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois in North-Eastern France, where his parents owned a seed business. He was their first son. In 1887 he went to
Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification. He first started painting in 1889, when his mother had brought him art supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of
appendicitis. He discovered "a kind of paradise" as he later described it.Leymarie, Jean; Read, Herbert; Lieberman, William S. (1966),
Henri Matisse, UCLA Art Council, p.9. He decided to become an artist, deeply disappointing his father.Bärbel Küster. "Arbeiten und auf niemanden hören."
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6 July 2007. In
1891 he returned to Paris to study art at the
Académie Julian and became a student of
William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau. Initially he painted still-lifes and landscapes in the traditional Flemish painting and was quite successful. In 1896 he exhibited 5 paintings in the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and the state bought two of his paintings. Henri and Pierre Matisse,
Cosmopolis, No 2, January 1999 In 1897 and 1898, he visited the painter John Peter Russell on the island
Belle Île off the coast of
Brittany. Russell introduced him to impressionism and to the work of Vincent van Gogh (who had been a good friend of Russell but was completely unknown at the time). Matisse's style changed completely, and he would later say "Russell was my teacher, and Russell explained
colour theory to me."
Influenced by the works of the post-Impressionism
Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Signac, and also by Japanese art, "Henri Matisse" (bio),
FamousPeople.com (Splashweb), 2004-12-06, webpage:
http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/h/henrimatisse.html FP-HMatisse.
he made colour a crucial element of his paintings. Many of his paintings from 1899 to 1905 make use of a
pointillism technique adopted from Signac. In 1898 he went to London to study the paintings of
J. M. W. Turner and then went on a trip to Corsica.
With the model Caroline Joblau, he had a daughter, Marguerite, born in 1894. In 1898 he married Amélie Noellie Parayre; the two raised Marguerite together and had two sons, Jean (born 1899) and Pierre (born 1900). Marguerite often served as a model for Matisse.
Fauvism
His first solo exhibition was in 1904, without much success. His fondness for bright and expressive colour became more pronounced after he moved southwards in 1905 to work with Andre Derain and spent time on the French Riviera. The paintings of this period are characterized by flat shapes and controlled lines, with expression dominant over detail.
At the 1905 Salon d'Automne, several artists exhibited paintings with wild, often dissonant colors to express emotions, without regard for the subject's natural colors. Matisse showed
Open Window and
Woman with the Hat at the Salon. The artists were soon called
Fauves (wild beasts) and Fauvism was born. Matisse was recognized as one of its leaders, along with André Derain; the two were friendly rivals of a sort, each with his own followers. Other members were Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy and Maurice Vlaminck. The Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau was the movement's inspirational teacher; a professor at the
École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he pushed his students to think outside of the lines of formality and to follow their visions.
In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire, commenting about Matisse in an article published in La Falange, said, "We are not here in the presence of an extravagant or an extremist undertaking: Matisse's art is eminently reasonable."
Picasso and Braque pioneering cubism William Rubin, published by the
Museum of Modern Art,
New York, copyright 1989, ISBN 0 87070-676-4 p.348.But Matisse's work of the time also encountered vehement criticism, and it was difficult for him to provide for his family. His controversial 1907 painting
Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) was burned in effigy at the
Armory Show in Chicago in 1913. "Matisse, Henri." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Accessed 30 July 2007
The decline of the Fauvist movement, after 1906, did nothing to affect the rise of Matisse; many of his finest works were created between 1906 and 1917, when he was an active part of the great gathering of artistic talent in Montparnasse, even though he did not quite fit in, with his conservative appearance and strict bourgeois work habits.
Matisse had a long association with the Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin. He created one of his major works
The Dance (painting) specially for Shchukin as part of a two painting commission, the other painting being
Music, 1909. Matisse painted an extra (second) version of
The Dance (painting) that is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Gertrude Stein, Académie Matisse, and the Cone sisters
, St. Petersburg, RussiaAround 1904 he met
Pablo Picasso, who was 12 years younger than him. The Unknown Matisse..., Radio National, 8 June 2005 The two became life-long friends as well as rivals and are often compared; one key difference between them is that Matisse drew and painted from nature, while Picasso was much more inclined to work from imagination. The subjects painted most frequently by both artists were women and still lifes, with Matisse more likely to place his figures in fully realized interiors. Matisse and Picasso were first brought together at the Paris salon of
Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas. During the first decade of the 20th century
United States in Paris Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo Stein, Michael Stein and Michael's wife Sarah were important collectors and supporters of Matisse's paintings. In addition Gertrude Stein's two American friends from
Baltimore, Maryland Clarabel and Etta Cone became major patrons of Matisse and Picasso, collecting hundreds of their paintings. The Cone collection is now exhibited in the
Baltimore Museum of Art. Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art. Accessed July 29, 2007
His friends organized and financed the
Académie Matisse in Paris,a private and non-commercial school in which Matisse instructed young artists. It operated from 1911 until 1917.
Hans Purrmann and Sarah Stein were amongst several of his most loyal students.
After Paris
In 1917 Matisse moved to
Cimiez on the French Riviera, a suburb of the city of Nice. His work of the decade or so following this relocation shows a relaxation and a softening of his approach. This "return to order" is characteristic of much art of the post-
World War I period, and can be compared with the neoclassicism of Picasso and Igor Stravinsky, and the return to traditionalism of
André Derain.His
orientalism odalisque paintings are characteristic of the period; while popular, some contemporary critics found this work shallow and decorative.
After 1930 a new vigor and bolder simplification appear in his work. American art collector Albert C. Barnes convinced him to produce a large mural for the
Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia,
The Dance II, which was completed in 1932. The Foundation owns several dozen other Matisse paintings.
He and his wife of 41 years separated in 1939. In 1941 he was diagnosed with
cancer and, following surgery, he started using a wheelchair. Until his death he would be cared for by a Russian woman, Lidia Delektorskaya, formerly one of his models. With the aid of assistants he set about creating cut paper collages, often on a large scale, called
gouaches découpés. His Blue Nudes series feature prime examples of this technique he called "painting with scissors"; they demonstrate the ability to bring his eye for colour and geometry to a new medium of utter simplicity, but with playful and delightful power.In 1947 he published
Jazz (Henri Matisse), a limited-edition book containing prints of colorful paper cut collages, accompanied by his written thoughts. In the 1940s he also worked as a graphic artist and produced black-and-white illustrations for several books.
Matisse, thoroughly unpolitical, was shocked when he heard that his daughter Marguerite, who had been active in the
Résistance during the war, was tortured and imprisoned in the
Ravensbrück concentration camp.
In 1951 he finished a four-year project of designing the interior, the glass windows and the decorations of the
Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire in
Vence. This project was the result of the close friendship between Matisse and Sister Jacques-Marie. He had hired her as a nurse and model in 1941 before she became a Dominican Nun and they met again in Vence and started the collaboration, a story related in her 1992 book
Henri Matisse: La Chapelle de Vence and in the 2003 documentary "A Model for Matisse". French Professor Directs "Model for Matisse", Carnegie Mellon Today, 30 June 2003. Accessed 30 July 2007.
Matisse died of a
heart attack at the age of 84 in 1954. He is interred in the cemetery of the Monastère Notre Dame de Cimiez and a Matisse Museum was opened in the area.
Legacy
-
1909,
The Back II,
1913,
The Back III 1916,
The Back IV, c. 1931,
Museum of Modern ArtThe first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was
Still Life with Geranium in 1910, exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne. Today, a Matisse painting can fetch as much as US $17 million. In 2002, a Matisse sculpture,
Reclining Nude I (Dawn), sold for US $9.2 million, a record for a sculpture by the artist.
Matisse's daughter Marguerite often aided Matisse scholars with insights about his working methods and his works. She died in 1982 while compiling a catalog of her father's work. Marguerite Duthuit, a Model In Art of Matisse, Her Father,
The New York Times, 3 April 1982
Matisse's son, Pierre Matisse, (1900-1989) opened an important modern art gallery in
New York City during the 1930s. The Pierre Matisse Gallery which was active from 1931 until 1989 represented and exhibited many European artists and a few Americans and Canadians in New York often for the first time. He exhibited Joan Miró,
Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti,
Jean Dubuffet,
André Derain,
Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier, Paul Delvaux, Wilfredo Lam, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus,
Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki,
Sam Francis, sculptors Theodore Roszak (artist), Raymond Mason and
Reg Butler, and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.
Matisse, Father & Son, by John Russell, published by Harry N. Abrams, NYC. Copyright John Russell 1999, pp.387-389 ISBN 0 81094378 6Metropolitan Museum exhibition of works from the Pierre Matisse Gallery, accessed online June 20, 2007, http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Matisse/collection_more.htm
Henri Matisse's grandson,
Paul Matisse, is an artist and inventor living in Massachusetts. Matisse's great granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist in 2007.
Partial list of works
,
Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line), 1905, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark,
The Dance (painting) (second version),
1909 Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia,
Munich, Germany
- Woman Reading (1894), Musée National d'Art Moderne
- Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (1902), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- Green Stripe (1905)
- The Open Window (1905)
- Woman with a Hat (1905)
- Les toits de collioure (1905)
- Landscape at Collioure (1905)
- Le bonheur de vivre (1906)
- The Young Sailor II (1906)
- Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906)
- Madras Rouge (1907)
- Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907), Baltimore Museum of Art
- The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908)
- Bathers with a Turtle (1908), Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
- The Dance (painting) (1909)
- L'Atelier Rouge (1911)
- The Conversation (painting) (1908–1912)
- Zorah on the Terrace (1912)
- Le Rifain assis (1912)
- Le rideau jaune (the yellow curtain) (1915)
- The Window (painting) (1916), Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
- La lecon de musique (1917)
- The Painter and His Model (1917)
- Interior A Nice (1920)
- Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923), National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Yellow Odalisque (1926)
- The Dance II (1932), triptych mural (45 ft by 15 ft) in the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia
- Robe violette et Anemones (1937)
- Woman in a Purple Coat (1937)
- Le Reve de 1940 (the dream of 1940) (1940)
- La Blouse Roumaine (1940)
- Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1943)
- Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944), Honolulu Academy of Arts
- L'Asie (1946)
- Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947)
- Jazz (Henri Matisse) (1947)
- The Plum Blossoms (1948)
- Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire (1948 - 1951)
- Beasts of the Sea (1950)
- The Sorrows of the King (1952)
- Black Leaf on Green Background (1952)
- La Negresse (1952)
- Blue Nudes (1952)
- The Snail (1953)
- Le Bateau (1954) (This gouache created a minor stir because MOMA had mistakenly displayed it upside-down for 47 days in 1961.Nan Robertson. "Modern Museum is Startled by Matisse Picture" New York Times, 5 December 1961.)
Books by Matisse
- Jazz (Henri Matisse), 1947
- Matisse on Art, collected by Jack D. Flam, 1973. ISBN 0714815187
Biographies
- Raymond Escholier. Matisse. A Portrait of the Artist and the Man. London, Faber & Faber, 1960.
- Lawrence Gowing. Matisse. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0195201574.
- Pierre Schneider. Matisse. New York, Rizzoli, 1984. ISBN 0847805468.
- Hilary Spurling. The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 1, 1869-1908. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1998. ISBN 0-679-43428-3.
- Hilary Spurling. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 2, The Conquest of Colour 1909 - 1954. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2005. ISBN 0-241-13339-4.
- John Russell, Matisse, Father & Son, published by Harry N. Abrams, NYC. Copyright John Russell 1999, ISBN 0 81094378 6
References
See also
External links
- Musée Matisse Nice
- Henri Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Matisse Gallery at Artst
- Henri Matisse at CGFA
- Current exhibitions and connection to galeries at Artfacts.Net
- Henri Matisse Gallery at MuseumSyndicate
- Artchive
- Henri Matisse at Olga's Gallery 158 pictures
- Matisse-Picasso
- Henri Matisse: A Virtual Art Gallery
- (I) in the MoMA Online Collection
- Matisse on Philo
- The Cone Sister Collection at The Baltimore Museum of Art
- Flam, Jack. Matisse in the Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001 ISBN 0-912298-73-1
- Matisse at Statens Museum for Kunst ("The Danish National Gallery")
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