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Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French
France

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 artist
Artist

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, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draftsmanship. As a draftsman
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
, printmaker
Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which is called a 'print....
, and sculptor
Sculpture

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, but principally as a painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve
Fauvism

Les Fauves were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the Realism or Representation values retained by Impressionism....
 (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art
Modern art

Modern art is a term that refers to artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s through the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era....
.

1894, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
]] Born Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Le Cateau-Cambrésis

Le Cateau-Cambr?sis is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.The term Cambr?sis indicates that it lies in the county of that name which fell to the Archdiocese of Cambrai....
, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, he grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois
Bohain-en-Vermandois

Bohain-en-Vernandois is a Communes of France in the Departments of France of Aisne in Picardie in northern France. It is the place where the painter Henri Matisse grew up....
 in Northeastern France, where his parents owned a seed business.






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A work of art must carry within itself its complete significance and impose that upon the beholder before he recognises the subject matter.

For me all is in the conception. I must therefore have a clear vision of the whole from the beginning.

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There must result a living harmony of colours, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

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Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draftsmanship. As a draftsman
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
, printmaker
Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which is called a 'print....
, and sculptor
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
, but principally as a painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve
Fauvism

Les Fauves were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the Realism or Representation values retained by Impressionism....
 (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art
Modern art

Modern art is a term that refers to artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s through the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era....
.

Early life and education

, 1894, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
]] Born Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Le Cateau-Cambrésis

Le Cateau-Cambr?sis is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.The term Cambr?sis indicates that it lies in the county of that name which fell to the Archdiocese of Cambrai....
, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, he grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois
Bohain-en-Vermandois

Bohain-en-Vernandois is a Communes of France in the Departments of France of Aisne in Picardie in northern France. It is the place where the painter Henri Matisse grew up....
 in Northeastern France, where his parents owned a seed business. He was their first son. In 1887 he went to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Le Cateau-Cambrésis

Le Cateau-Cambr?sis is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.The term Cambr?sis indicates that it lies in the county of that name which fell to the Archdiocese of Cambrai....
 after gaining his qualification. He first started to paint in 1889, when his mother had brought him art supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis
Appendicitis

Appendicitis is a condition characterized by inflammation of the Vermiform appendix. It is a medical emergency. All cases require removal of the inflamed appendix, either by laparotomy or laparoscopy....
. He discovered "a kind of paradise" as he later described it, and decided to become an artist, deeply disappointing his father. In 1891 he returned to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian
Académie Julian

The Acad?mie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Acad?mie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students....
 and became a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a France Academic art. Bouguereau was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classicism subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body....
 and Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau was a France Symbolist painters whose main focus was the illustration of Bible and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolism writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement....
. Initially he painted still-lifes and landscapes in the traditional Flemish style
Flemish painting

Flemish painting flourished from the early 15th century until the 17th century. County of Flanders delivered the leading painters in Northern Europe and attracted many promising young painters from neighbouring countries....
, at which he achieved reasonable proficiency. Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Jean-Baptiste-Sim?on Chardin was an 18th-century France List of painters. He is considered a master of still life....
 was one of Matisse's most admired painters; as an art student he made copies of four Chardin paintings in the Louvre
Louvre

The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
. In 1896 he exhibited 5 paintings in the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and the state bought two of his paintings. In 1897 and 1898, he visited the painter John Peter Russell
John Peter Russell

John Peter Russell was an Australian impressionism painter....
 on the island Belle Île
Belle Île

Belle-?le or Belle-?le-en-Mer is a France island off the coast of Brittany in the d?partement in France of Morbihan, and the largest of Brittany's islands....
 off the coast of Brittany
Brittany

Brittany is a former independent Celtic nations monarchy and duchy, now incorporated into France. It is also, more generally, the name of the cultural area whose limits correspond to the historic province and independent duchy....
. Russell introduced him to Impressionism
Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists art exhibition their art publicly in the 1860s....
 and to the work of Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch people Post-Impressionism artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art....
 (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."

Matisse was nfluenced by the works of the post-Impressionists
Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Edouard Manet....
 Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne

Paul C?zanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist Painting whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century....
, Gauguin
Paul Gauguin

Eug?ne Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading Post-Impressionism Painting. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetism style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral...
, Auguste Rodin, Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin was a French Painting in the Classicism style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color....
, Antoine Watteau
Antoine Watteau

Jean-Antoine Watteau was a France Painting whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement , and revitalized the waning Baroque idiom, which eventually became known as Rococo....
, Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch people Post-Impressionism artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art....
, Edouard Manet
Édouard Manet

?douard Manet , 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883, was a French Painting. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from realism to Impressionism....
 and Paul Signac
Paul Signac

Paul Signac was a France Neo-impressionism Painting who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillism style....
, and also by Japanese art
Japanese art

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper, and a myriad of other types of works of art....
, Matisse immersed himself in the work of others and got in debt from buying work from many of the painters he admired. The work he hung and displayed in his home included Cezanne's Three Bathers, a plaster bust by Rodin
Rodin

Rodin may refer to:* Auguste Rodin , French sculptor, for whom is named:** The Mus?e Rodin in Paris, France.** The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, U.S.A....
, a painting by Gauguin and a drawing by van Gogh. Cezanne made colour a crucial element of his paintings. Many of his paintings from 1899 to 1905 make use of a pointillist
Pointillism

Pointillism is a style of painting in which small distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors....
 technique adopted from Signac. In 1898, he went to London to study the paintings of J. M. W. Turner
J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Royal Academy was an English Romanticism Landscape art, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism....
 and then went on a trip to Corsica
Corsica

Corsica is the Mediterranean islands#By area in the Mediterranean Sea . It is located west of Italy, southeast of the France mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
.

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 at Vollard's
Ambroise Vollard

Ambroise Vollard , is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century. He is credited with providing exposure and emotional support to numerous notable and unknown artists, including Paul C?zanne, Aristide Maillol, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van...
 gallery in 1904, without much success. His fondness for bright and expressive colour became more pronounced after he moved southwards in 1905 to work with André Derain
André Derain

Andr? Derain was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse....
 and spent time on the French Riviera
French Riviera

The C?te d'Azur , often known in English as the French Riviera, is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeastern corner of France, extending from Menton near the Italy border on the east to either Hy?res or Cassis in the west....
. The paintings of this period are characterized by flat shapes and controlled lines, with expression dominant over detail.

In 1905, Matisse and a group of artists now known as "Fauves
Fauvism

Les Fauves were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the Realism or Representation values retained by Impressionism....
" exhibited together in a room at the Salon d'Automne
Salon d'Automne

In 1903, the first Salon d'Automne was organized by Georges Rouault, Andr? Derain, Henri Matisse and Albert Marquet as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon....
. The paintings expressed emotion with wild, often dissonant colors, without regard for the subject's natural colors. Matisse showed Open Window and Woman with the Hat at the Salon. Critic Louis Vauxcelles
Louis Vauxcelles

Louis Vauxcelles was an influential French art critic. To him are attributed the terms Fauvism , and Cubism . Vauxcelles coined the phrase 'les fauves' to describe a circle of painters associated with Henri Matisse as well as the audiences who criticised them .The term fauvism came from his own critisim and disaproval of the works o...
 described the work with the phrase "Donatello
Donatello

Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italy artist and sculpture from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism....
 au milieu des fauves!" (Donatello among the wild beasts), referring to a Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
-type sculpture that shared the room with them. His comment was printed on 17 October 1905 in Gil Blas
Gil Blas (periodical)

Gil Blas was a Parisian literary periodical founded by Augustin-Alexandre Dumont in November 1879, and which stayed in publication until 1914....
, a daily newspaper, and passed into popular usage. The pictures gained considerable condemnation, such as "A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public" from the critic Camille Mauclair
Camille Mauclair

Camille Faust , better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a France poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic....
, but also some favourable attention. The painting that was singled out for attacks was Matisse's Woman with a Hat
Woman with a Hat

Woman with a Hat is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1905.It is believed that the woman in the painting was Matisse's wife, Amelie.It was exhibited with the work of other artists, now known as "Fauvism" at the 1905 Salon d'Automne....
, which was bought by Gertrude
Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and Modernist literature....
 and Leo Stein
Leo Stein

Leo Stein was an American art collector and critic. In addition to being elder brother to Gertrude Stein, he is also remembered as an influential promoter of 20th-century paintings....
: this had a very positive effect on Matisse, who was suffering demoralization from the bad reception of his work. , 1905, oil on canvas, The Hermitage
Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art , and one of the oldest art gallery and museums of human history and culture in the world....
, St. Petersburg, Russia]] Matisse was recognized as a leader of the group, along with André Derain
André Derain

Andr? Derain was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse....
; the two were friendly rivals, each with his own followers. Other members were Georges Braque
Georges Braque

Georges Braque was a major 20th century French Painting and sculpture who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as cubism....
, Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy

Raoul Dufy was a French people Fauvism painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs for ceramics, textiles and decorative schemes for public buildings....
 and Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck

Maurice de Vlaminck was a France Painting. Along with Andr? Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauvism movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense color....
. The Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau was a France Symbolist painters whose main focus was the illustration of Bible and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolism writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement....
 was the movement's inspirational teacher, and he did much for the era; a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts

?cole des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the Rive Gauche in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6?me arrondissement, Paris....
 in Paris, he pushed his students to think outside of the lines of formality and to follow their visions.

In 1907 Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary de Waz-Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a France poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
, 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."

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 Nu bleu
Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)

File:Matisse Souvenir de Biskra.jpgBlue Nude is an early 1907 oil painting by Henri Matisse. It is located at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of the Cone Collection....
 was burned in effigy at the Armory Show
Armory Show

Many exhibitions have been held in the vast spaces of U.S. United States National Guard Armory , but the Armory Show refers to the International Exhibition of Modern Art that was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors and opened in New York City's 69th Regiment Armory, on Lexington Avenue between...
 in Chicago in 1913.

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
Montparnasse

Montparnasse is an area of Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche of the river Seine, centred on the intersection of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes....
, 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
Sergei Shchukin

Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin ?????? ???????? ????? was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, following a trip to Paris in 1897, when he bought his first Monet....
. He created one of his major works La Danse
The Dance (painting)

The Dance , is a painting from 1910 by Henri Matisse....
 specially for Shchukin as part of a two painting commission, the other painting being Music, 1910. An earlier version of La Danse
The Dance (painting)

The Dance , is a painting from 1910 by Henri Matisse....
 (1909) is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
.

Gertrude Stein, Académie Matisse, and the Cone sisters

Around 1904 he met Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego Jos? Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mar?a de los Remedios Cipriano de la Sant?sima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was a Spanish people Painting, drawing, and Sculpture....
, who was 12 years younger than him. 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 life
Still life

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made in an artificial setting....
s, with Matisse more likely to place his figures in fully realized interiors. Matisse and Picasso were first brought together at the Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 salon
Salon

...
 of Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and Modernist literature....
 and her companion Alice B. Toklas
Alice B. Toklas

Alice B. Toklas was the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein....
. During the first decade of the 20th century, Americans
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in Paris Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo Stein
Leo Stein

Leo Stein was an American art collector and critic. In addition to being elder brother to Gertrude Stein, he is also remembered as an influential promoter of 20th-century paintings....
, 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
Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland in the United States. Baltimore is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay....
 , 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
Baltimore Museum of Art

The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1914. It is located between the Charles Village, Baltimore and Remington, Baltimore neighborhoods, immediately adjacent to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University, though the museum is an independent institution not affiliated with the University....
.

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
Hans Purrmann

Hans Marsilius Purrmann was a Germany artist. He was born in Speyer where he also grew up. He completed an apprenticeship as a scene painter and interior decorator, and subsequently studied in Karlsruhe and Munich before going to Paris in 1906....
 and Sarah Stein were amongst several of his most loyal students.

After Paris

]] In 1917 Matisse relocated to Cimiez
Cimiez

Cimiez is an upper class neighborhood in Nice, France. The area contains the Henri Matisse Museum and the Roman Ruins . In July every year the Nice Jazz Festival is held on the grounds of the Roman Ruins in Cimiez....
 on the French Riviera
French Riviera

The C?te d'Azur , often known in English as the French Riviera, is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeastern corner of France, extending from Menton near the Italy border on the east to either Hy?res or Cassis in the west....
, a suburb of the city of Nice
Nice

Nice is a city in Southern France France located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 1,197,751 inhabitants in the 2007 estimate....
. His work of the decade or so following this relocation shows a relaxation and a softening of his approach. This "return to order
Return to order

The return to order was a European art movement that followed the First World War, rejecting the extreme avant-garde art of the years up to 1918 and taking its inspiration from traditional art instead....
" is characteristic of much art of the post-World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 period, and can be compared with the neoclassicism
Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to quite distinct Cultural movement in the Decorative art and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture ....
 of Picasso and Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
, and the return to traditionalism of Derain
André Derain

Andr? Derain was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse....
. His orientalist
Orientalism

Orientalism refers to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, and can also refer to a sympathetic stance towards the region by a writer or other person....
 odalisque
Odalisque

An odalisque was a virgin female slave in an Ottoman Empire seraglio. She was an assistant or apprentice to the concubines and wives, and she might rise in status to become one of them....
 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
Albert C. Barnes

Albert Coombs Barnes was an United States inventor and art collector, who made a fortune from the development of the antiseptic drug Argyrol, and founded the Barnes Foundation, a museum created from his own private collection....
 convinced him to produce a large mural for the Barnes Foundation, 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 underwent surgery where a colostomy
Colostomy

A colostomy is a surgical procedure that involves connecting a part of the Colon onto the anterior abdominal wall, leaving the patient with an opening on the abdomen called a Stoma ....
 was performed. Afterwards, he started using a wheelchair. Until his death he would be cared for by a Russian woman, Lydia 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
Blue Nudes

Blue Nudes refer to a series of gouaches decoupages by Henri Matisse, executed in 1952. They represent female nudes either seated or standing, and are among Matisse's final works in any medium.During the early to mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health....
 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
Jazz (Henri Matisse)

Jazz is a book of about one hundred printmaking based on paper cutouts by Henri Matisse. T?riade, a noted 20th century art publisher, arranged to have Matisse's cutouts rendered as pochoir prints....
, 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 and over one hundred original lithographs at the famous Mourlot Studios
Mourlot Studios

Mourlot Studios was a commercial print shop founded in 1852 by the Mourlot family and located in Paris, France. It was also known as Imprimerie Mourlot, Mourlot Freres and Atelier Mourlot....
 in Paris.

Matisse, thoroughly unpolitical, was shocked when he heard that his daughter Marguerite, who had been active in the Résistance
Resistance

Resistance may refer to:...
 during the war, was tortured and imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück concentration camp

Ravensbr?ck or Ravensbrueck was a notorious women's concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbr?ck ....
. In 1951 he finished a four-year project of designing the interior, the glass windows and the decorations of the Chapelle du Rosaire de 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".

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, near Nice. A museum
Matisse Museum (Le Cateau)

The Matisse Museum is a museum in Le Cateau-Cambr?sis, France that primarily displays paintings by Henri Matisse. The museum was established by Matisse himself on 8 November 1952; he also defined the way his works should be arranged....
 dedicated to his work was opened nearby in 1952, just before his death, and is now the third-largest collection of Matisse works in France.

Legacy

The first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was Still Life with Geraniums
Still Life with Geraniums

Still Life with Geraniums is a 1910 oil on canvas painting by Henri Matisse.It is in the collection of Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, to whom it was given in 1912, thus becoming, according to the museum, the first Matisse to enter a public collection....
 (1910), exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne
Pinakothek der Moderne

The Pinakothek der Moderne is a modern art museum, situated in the city centre of Munich, Germany. Together with the Alte Pinakothek and the Neue Pinakothek it is part of Munich's "Kunstareal" ....
. 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.

The Plum Blossoms
The Plum Blossoms

The Plum Blossoms is a 1948 painting by Henri Matisse. On September 8 2005, it was purchased for the Museum of Modern Art by Henry Kravis and the new president of the museum, Marie-Jos?e Drouin....
 a 1948 painting by Henri Matisse, was purchased on September 8 2005, for the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues....
 by Henry Kravis
Henry Kravis

Henry R. Kravis is an United States business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading a leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co....
 and the new president of the museum, Marie-Josée Drouin
Marie-Josée Drouin

Marie-Jos?e Kravis, is an economist from Montreal, Quebec, Quebec....
. Estimated price was US $25 million. Previously, it had not been seen by the public since 1970.

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.

Matisse's son, Pierre Matisse
Pierre Matisse

Pierre Matisse was the son of the influential French painter Henri Matisse, the father of Paul Matisse, a painter/inventor and the grandfather of Sophie Matisse also a painter....
, (1900-1989) opened an important modern art gallery in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 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
Joan Miró

Joan Mir? i Ferr? was a Spain Catalonia painting, sculpture and Ceramics born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride....
, Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall ; [shuh-GAHL] , was a Jewish Russians artist, born in Belarus and naturalized France in 1937, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century....
, Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti was a Switzerland Sculpture, Painting, drawing, and printmaking....
, Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was one of the most famous France Paintings and sculpture of the second half of the 20th century....
, André Derain
André Derain

Andr? Derain was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse....
, Yves Tanguy
Yves Tanguy

Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy , known as Yves Tanguy was a surrealist painter....
, Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier

Charles-?douard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also Painting, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style....
, Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux

Paul Delvaux was a Belgium Painting, famous for his surrealist paintings with female nudes....
, Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Oscar de la Concepci?n Lam y Castilla , better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture....
, Jean-Paul Riopelle
Jean-Paul Riopelle

Jean-Paul Riopelle, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a Painting and sculpture from Quebec, Canada.Born in Montreal, he studied under Paul-?mile Borduas in the 1940s and was a member of Les Automatistes movement....
, Balthus
Balthus

Balthasar Klossowski de Rola , known as Balthus , was an esteemed but controversial Polish/French modern artist....
, Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington is a British-born artist, a Surrealism and a novelist who now lives in Mexico....
, Zao Wou Ki
Zao Wou Ki

Zao Wou-Ki is a China-France Painting....
, Sam Francis
Sam Francis

Samuel Lewis Francis was an United States Painting and printmaker. He was born in San Mateo, California, and studied botany, medicine and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley....
, sculptors Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak (artist)

Theodore Roszak was an United States Sculpture and Painting. He was born in Poznan, Prussia as a son of Poland parents, and emigrated at a young age to the United States....
, Raymond Mason and Reg Butler
Reg Butler

Reginald Cotterell Butler was an England sculptor. He studied and lectured at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1937 to 1939....
, and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.

Henri Matisse's grandson, Paul Matisse
Paul Matisse

Paul Matisse is an artist and inventor. He is known especially for his public art installations, many of which are interactive. He is also inventor of the Kalliroscope....
, is an artist and inventor living in Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
. Matisse's great granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist in 2009. Les Heritiers Matisse functions as his official Estate. The U.S. copyright representative for Les Heritiers Matisse is the Artists Rights Society
Artists Rights Society

Artists Rights Society is a copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property rights interests of over 50,000 visual artists and estates of visual artists from around the world ....
.

Paintings


The cutouts


Partial list of works

  • Woman Reading
    Woman Reading

    File:Reading henri matisse.jpgWoman Reading is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1894. It hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris....
     (1894), Museum of Modern Art, Paris
  • Le Mur Rose
    Le Mur Rose

    File:Matisse Mur Rose.jpgLe Mur Rose , is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1898.It was bought in Paris by Jew entrepreneur Harry Fuld, who founded Frankfurt, Germany based H....
     (1898), Museum of Modern Art, Paris
  • Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi
    Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi

    Notre-Dame, une fin d'apr?s-midi is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1902.Its somber coloration is typical of Matisse's works executed between the end of 1901 and the end of 1903, a period of personal difficulties for the artist....
     (1902), Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    Albright-Knox Art Gallery

    The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art located in Buffalo, New York. It is located directly across the street from Buffalo State College....
    , Buffalo, New York
    Buffalo, New York

    Buffalo , is the second largest city in the state of New York. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the county seat of Erie County, New York....
  • The green line
    Green Stripe

    The Green Line also known as The Green Stripe or Mme Matisse, is a portrait of Henri Matisse's wife, Am?lie Matisse. He painted it in 1905, just prior to such work being labeled as that of Fauvism , along with the works of Andr? Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck....
     (1905)
  • The Open Window
    The Open Window

    The Open Window also known as Open Window, Collioure, is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1905, oil on canvas, former collection of Mr. and Mrs....
     (1905)
  • Woman with a Hat
    Woman with a Hat

    Woman with a Hat is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1905.It is believed that the woman in the painting was Matisse's wife, Amelie.It was exhibited with the work of other artists, now known as "Fauvism" at the 1905 Salon d'Automne....
     (1905)
  • Les toits de Collioure
    Les toits de Collioure

    File:Matissetoits.gifLes toits de Collioure is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1905. It is an example of the Pointillist style that Matisse employed during his his early period of Fauvism....
     (1905)
  • Landscape at Collioure
    Landscape at Collioure

    File:Matisse Les toits.jpgLandscape at Collioure is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1905, part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art....
     (1905)
  • Le bonheur de vivre
    Le bonheur de vivre

    File:Bonheur Matisse.jpgLe bonheur de vivre , is a painting by Henri Matisse. In the central background of the piece is a group of figures that is similar to the group depicted in his painting The Dance ....
     (1906)
  • The Young Sailor II
    The Young Sailor II

    The Young Sailor II is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1906....
     (1906)
  • Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt
    Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt

    Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt is a painting by Henri Matisse from his Fauvism period, in the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark....
     (1906)
  • Madras Rouge
    Madras Rouge

    File:Matisse.mme-matisse-madras.jpgMadras Rouge is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1907. The woman depicted is the painter's wife, Am?lie Noellie Parayre Matisse....
     (1907)
  • Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)
    Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)

    File:Matisse Souvenir de Biskra.jpgBlue Nude is an early 1907 oil painting by Henri Matisse. It is located at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of the Cone Collection....
     (1907), Baltimore Museum of Art
    Baltimore Museum of Art

    The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1914. It is located between the Charles Village, Baltimore and Remington, Baltimore neighborhoods, immediately adjacent to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University, though the museum is an independent institution not affiliated with the University....
  • The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)
    The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)

    The Dessert: Harmony in Red is a painting by French artist Henri Matisse, from 1908.Originally it was called Harmony in Blue. It was bought by a collector, but Matisse was not satisfied with the overall blue, which did not provide sufficient contrast with the green seen through the window in the painting....
     (1908)
  • Bathers with a Turtle
    Bathers with a Turtle

    File:Bathers with a turtle.jpgBathers with a Turtle is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1908, collection: The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis....
     (1908), Saint Louis Art Museum
    Saint Louis Art Museum

    The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the principal United States art museums, visited by up to a half million people every year. Admission is free....
    , Missouri
    Missouri

    Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
  • La Danse
    The Dance (painting)

    The Dance , is a painting from 1910 by Henri Matisse....
     (1909)
  • Still Life with Geraniums
    Still Life with Geraniums

    Still Life with Geraniums is a 1910 oil on canvas painting by Henri Matisse.It is in the collection of Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, to whom it was given in 1912, thus becoming, according to the museum, the first Matisse to enter a public collection....
     (1910)
  • L'Atelier Rouge
    L'Atelier Rouge

    File:Atelier rouge matisse 1.jpgL'Atelier Rouge, also known as The Red Studio, is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1911, in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art New York City....
     (1911)
  • The Conversation
    The Conversation (painting)

    The Conversation is a painting by Henri Matisse dating from 1908?1912, depicting the artist and his wife facing each other before a background of intense blue....
     (1908–1912)
  • Zorah on the Terrace
    Zorah on the Terrace

    File:Zorah on the Terrace.jpgZorah on the Terrace , oil on canvas, is a painting by Henri Matisse in the collection of The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia....
     (1912)
  • Le Rifain assis
    Le Rifain assis

    File:Matisse Riffian.jpgLe Rifain assis 1912-1913, oil on canvas, is a painting by Henri Matisse in the collection of the Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA, USA....
     (1912)
  • Window at Tangier (1912)
  • Le rideau jaune
    Le rideau jaune

    Le rideau jaune is a painting by Henri Matisse painted in 1915. Its size is 57 1/2 x 38 1/8" .It is currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York....
     (the yellow curtain)     (1915)
  • The Window (1916), Detroit Institute of Arts
    Detroit Institute of Arts

    The Detroit Institute of Arts , originally named the Detroit Museum of Art, has one of the largest, most significant art collections in the United States....
    , Michigan
    Michigan

    Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
  • La leçon de musique (1917)
  • The Painter and His Model
    The Painter and His Model

    File:Matpandm.jpgThe Painter and His Model is a painting by Henri Matisse from the year 1917. It is currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Paris....
     (1917)
  • Interior A Nice (1920)
  • Odalisque with Raised Arms
    Odalisque with Raised Arms

    Odalisque with Raised Arms is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1923. The full title is Odalisque assise aux bras lev?s, fauteuil ray? vert, which translates as "Odalisque with raised arms sitting on a green striped armchair"....
     (1923), National Gallery of Art
    National Gallery of Art

    The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W....
    , Washington
    Washington

    Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
  • Yellow Odalisque
    Yellow Odalisque

    Yellow Odalisque is the title of two paintings by Henri Matisse:* From 1926, at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa* From 1937, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia...
     (1926)
  • The Dance II
    The Dance II

    The Dance II by Henri Matisse is a triptych mural in the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia. It was created in 1932.External links...
     (1932), triptych
    Triptych

    A triptych is a work of art which is divided into three sections, or three Wood carving panels which are hinged together and folded. It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works; the diptych has two panels....
     mural
    Mural

    A mural is a painting on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface....
     (45 ft by 15 ft) in the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia
    Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia

    The Barnes Foundation is an educational art institution in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States....
  • Robe violette et Anémones
    Robe violette et Anémones

    Robe violette et An?mones is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1937....
     (1937)
  • Woman in a Purple Coat
    Woman in a Purple Coat

    Woman in a Purple Coat is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1937. It depicts Matisse's assistant Lydia Delectorskaya. This painting is an example of Henri Matisse's mature decorative style....
     (1937)
  • Le Rêve de 1940 (the dream of 1940) (1940)
  • La Blouse Roumaine
    La Blouse Roumaine

    La Blouse Roumaine is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1940....
     (1940)
  • Le Lanceur De Couteaux
    Le Lanceur De Couteaux

    Le Lanceur De Couteaux is a paper cut by Henri Matisse from 1947. It is from Jazz , 1947.T?riade, a noted 20th century art publisher, arranged to have Matisse's cutouts rendered as pochoir prints....
     (1943)
  • Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones
    Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones

    Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1944.The painting depicts a woman smiling at a table with flowers aligned on it....
     (1944), Honolulu Academy of Arts
    Honolulu Academy of Arts

    The Honolulu Academy of Arts was chartered in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke , who desired to share her love for the arts with the children of Honolulu and Hawaii....
  • L'Asie
    L'Asie

    L'Asie is a painting by Henri Matisse. It is an oil painting painting from 1946.The painting is currently in private collection....
     (1946)
  • Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge
    Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge

    Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge , oil on canvas, 61 x 49.8 cm is a painting by Henri Matisse in the collection of the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania....
     (1947)
  • Jazz
    Jazz (Henri Matisse)

    Jazz is a book of about one hundred printmaking based on paper cutouts by Henri Matisse. T?riade, a noted 20th century art publisher, arranged to have Matisse's cutouts rendered as pochoir prints....
     (1947)
  • The Plum Blossoms
    The Plum Blossoms

    The Plum Blossoms is a 1948 painting by Henri Matisse. On September 8 2005, it was purchased for the Museum of Modern Art by Henry Kravis and the new president of the museum, Marie-Jos?e Drouin....
     (1948)
  • Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire
    Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire

    The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence , often referred to as the Matisse Chapel or the Vence Chapel, is a small chapel built for Dominican Order nuns in the town of Vence, France on the French Riviera....
     (1948 - 1951)
  • Beasts of the Sea
    Beasts of the Sea

    Beasts of the Sea is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1950. It is a paper collage on canvas. It is currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC..During the early to mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health....
     (1950)
  • The Sorrows of the King
    The Sorrows of the King

    The Sorrows of the King is a collage using cut out paper shapes by Henri Matisse from 1952. It was made from paper he had coloured with gouache paint and is mounted on canvas....
     (1952)
  • Black Leaf on Green Background
    Black Leaf on Green Background

    Black Leaf on Green Background is a painting by Henri Matisse. It was made by Matisse with Gouache and cut paper on paper. It is currently in the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.During the early to mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health....
     (1952)
  • La Négresse
    La Négresse

    La N?gresse 1952/1953; by Henri Matisse is a gouache decoupage. During the early to mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. Eventually by 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts....
     (1952)
  • Blue Nude II (1952)
  • The Snail
    The Snail

    The Snail or The Snail , by Henri Matisse, Nice-Cimiez, Hotel Regina, [summer 1952-early] 1953, Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, on white paper, 9'4 3/4" x 9' 5" collection Tate Gallery, London....
     (1953)
  • Le Bateau
    Le Bateau

    Le Bateau is a Papercutting from 1953 by Henri Matisse. The picture is composed from pieces of paper cut out of sheets painted with gouache, and was created during the last years of Matisse's life....
     (1954) (This gouache
    Gouache

    Gouache , the name of which derives from the Italian language guazzo, "water paint, splash" or bodycolor is a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water....
     created a minor stir when the MoMA
    Moma

    Moma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River...
     mistakenly displayed it upside-down for 47 days in 1961.)

Books/Essays

  • Notes of a Painter,1908
  • Painter's Notes on Drawing ,1930.
  • Jazz
    Jazz (Henri Matisse)

    Jazz is a book of about one hundred printmaking based on paper cutouts by Henri Matisse. T?riade, a noted 20th century art publisher, arranged to have Matisse's cutouts rendered as pochoir prints....
    , 1947
  • Matisse on Art, collected by Jack D. Flam, 1973. ISBN 0714815187


See also

  • Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence
  • History of painting
    History of painting

    The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures, that represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from Antiquity....
  • Western painting
    Western painting

    The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from classical antiquity. Until the mid 19th century it was primarily concerned with Representational art and Classical antiquity modes of production, after which time more Modern art, Abstract art and Conceptual art forms gained favor....


Resources

  • F. Celdran, R.R. Vidal y Plana. Triangle : Henri Matisse - Georgette Agutte - Marcel Sembat Paris, Yvelinedition, 2007. ISBN 9782846681315.
  • Raymond Escholier. Matisse. A Portrait of the Artist and the Man. London, Faber & Faber, 1960.
  • Lawrence Gowing
    Lawrence Gowing

    Sir Lawrence Gowing was a United Kingdom artist, writer, curator, and teacher. Initially recognized as a portrait painting and landscape painting, he quickly rose to prominence as an art educator, writer, and, eventually, curator and museum trustee....
    . Matisse. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0195201574.
  • Pierre Schneider. Matisse. New York, Rizzoli, 1984. ISBN 0847805468.
  • Hilary Spurling
    Hilary Spurling

    Hilary Spurling, Order of the British Empire is a British writer, known as a journalist and biographer. She won the Whitbread Book Awards for her two-volume biography of Matisse in January 2006....
    . 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
    John Russell (art critic)

    John Russell CBE was a British American art critic....
    . Matisse, Father & Son, published by Harry N. Abrams, NYC. Copyright John Russell 1999, ISBN 0 81094378 6
  • Alastair Wright. Matisse and the Subject of Modernism Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN 0691118302.


External links

  • 158 pictures
  • in the MoMA Online Collection
  • Flam, Jack. , Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001 ISBN 0-912298-73-1
  • 500 hi-res images