Artist: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
Nationality: French
Movement: Fauvism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Henri Matisse was employed as a lawyer’s clerk before switching to his art profession in 1890. Matisse briefly studied impressionism, but under the training of Moreau, he learned to use his own simplified figures and bold colors. His first works bordered on Neo-Impressionism, but as he progressed as an artist, he found that his painting and prints employed different values. After an exhibition in 1905, Matisse and his cohorts were given the name Les Fauves by critics, supplying their movement with the name Fauvism. While battling illness in Vence, a town near Nice, he was cared for by nuns. In return, Matisse financed and designed a chapel. Bedridden at end of his life and unable to paint at an easel, he cut out and painted on paper, gluing and assembling to form his final work.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Henri Matisse, Henri de Montherlant, 1937
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Henri Matisse, Catherinette, 1946
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Henri Matisse, Figure, 1929
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Henri Matisse, Untitled, 1938
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Henri Matisse, Autoportrait (Self-portrait), 1944
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Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Boy with Butterfly Net Date: 1907 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:
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Henri Matisse - Portrait of Alexina Matisse 1938 charcoal The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art French
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Henri Matisse, Nu assis ý la chemise de tulle (Odalisque), 1925
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Henri Matisse, Fleurs (Flowers), circa 1947 - 1950
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Henri Matisse, Le repos du modËle (Model resting), 1922
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Henri Matisse, Study for "Young Woman in Pink", circa 1923
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Henri Matisse, Young Woman in Pink (La Jeune Femme en Rose), 1923
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Henri Matisse, Fruits, p. 29, from the book Prints from the Mourlot Press, 1964
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Henri Matisse, Untitled ????,
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Henri Matisse, BÈdouine au voile dÈnoue (Bedouin woman with loose veil), 1947
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Promenade among the Olive Trees, 1906 Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)Oil on canvas; 17 1/2 x
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Leaves Date: about 1948 Medium: pen and black ink on coated
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Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Self-Portrait Date: 1923 Medium: lithograph; ed. of 10 Dimensions: H.13-1/8 x
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Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Three Bathers Date: 1907 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.23-3/4 x
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Artist: Henri Matisse Title: White Plumes Date: 1919 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.28-3/4 x
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Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Woman with Folded Hands Date: 1918 - 1919 Medium: pen and
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Artist: Henri Matisse and Charles d"Orléans and Tériade Title: Poemes Date: 1950 Medium: 54 color
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Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Standing Odalisque with a Plate of Fruit Date: 1924 Medium: lithograph
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Henri Matisse, Untitled (seated dancer), from the porfolio Dix danseuses (Ten dancers) (Paris: Galerie d"Art Contemporain de Paris, 1927), 1927
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Henri Matisse Title: The Music Lesson Date: 1926 Medium: conte crayon on paper Dimensions:
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Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Seated Nude in a Tulle Blouse Date: 1925 Medium: lithograph Dimensions:
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Henri Matisse, Jeune fille ý la chaise-longue dans un sous-bois (Young girl on a chaise lounge under the trees), 1922
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Icarus, 1947 Made by Henri Matisse (French, Cateau-Cambrésis 1869-1954 Nice)Color pochoir; Image: 16-1/2 x 10-1/2
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Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Antoinette with Long Hair Date: 1919 Medium: graphite on off-white wove
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Henri Matisse - Jazz n.d. stencil prints in co New Orleans Museum of Art French
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Henri Matisse - Still Life c. 1905 oil on cardboard on National Gallery of Art French
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Henri Matisse - The Back(I) 1908 bronze The Museum of Modern Art French
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Henri Matisse - Jeannette (I) 1910 bronze The Museum of Modern Art French
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Henri Matisse - Jeannette (II) 1910 bronze The Museum of Modern Art French
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Henri Matisse - The Red Studio 1911 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Henri Matisse - The Back (II) 1913 bronze The Museum of Modern Art French
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Henri Matisse - The Back (III) 1916 bronze The Museum of Modern Art French
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Henri Matisse - Jeannette (V) 1916 bronze The Museum of Modern Art French
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Henri Matisse - The Back (IV) c. 1931 bronze The Museum of Modern Art French
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Henri Matisse - Two Women 1908 bronze Cleveland Museum of Art French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Art Gallery of South Australia: Matisse: The Art of Drawing
Much of Matisse's inspiration was found in poetry. Like his art, the poetry or poetic prose he loved was intimate and sensuous. In his later years the artist developed the practice of reading poetry every morning before he began working in h...
Philbrook Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
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Birmingham Museum of Art: Matisse
Matisse took the classical form of the body, and, with a revolutionary intensity of color and simplicity of brushwork, brought it into the modern era. Everything worked to bring out the sensual, expressive and essential elements of the human form: ...
Tate Modern: MatissePicasso
Through a series of over thirty groupings of paintings and sculpture, this major exhibition gives you the opportunity to compare and contrast Matisse's expressive use of colour and line alongside Picasso's stylistic virtuos...
Queensland Art Gallery: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
In the late nineteenth century these artists were all drawn to Belle-Île, off the coast of Brittany, France, by their desire to capture on canvas the island’s dramatic, storm-tossed coastline...
Courtauld Institute of Art: Fauve Painting 1905-7: The Triumph of Pure Colour
Louis Vauxcelles, one of the more progressive critics described the proximity of a relatively classical sculpture to paintings by Matisse and his colleagues as -Donatello among the wild beasts - and the name stuck although the Fauves were ne...
Royal Academy of Arts: Ingres to Matisse: Masterpieces of French Painting
Opening with work by Ingres and Delacroix and closing with the paintings of Picasso and Matisse, the exhibition will provide a broad overview of French painting from the early nineteenth-century to the 1930s. Ingres to Matisse ...
Columbia Museum of Art: From Fauvism to Impressionism: Albert Marquet at the Pompidou
Schooled under Gustav Moreau at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs alongside his friend Henri Matisse, Marquet was considered at the forefront of artistic achievement in France in his day. Bonds of friendship associated him with Matisse as well as Raou...
Somerset House: New displays: Into the 20th Century
New loans will include a group of over 30 Fauve paintings, including work by Matisse, Derain, Dufy and Vlaminck, as well as a selection of paintings and drawings by Kandinsky. The sculpture will include by Degas, Rodin, Maillol, Matisse, Laurens, ...
Museum of Modern Art: Matisse Picasso
Years in the making, this exhibition is the result of a unique collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Musée Picasso and Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. It brings together masterpieces ...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
The exhibition is currently being presented at the Royal Academy of Art in London, England, before concluding with its visit to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition has received critical accolades in each of its previous engagements. ...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Matisse: A Second Life
“Une seconde vie”, a second life, was what Henri Matisse called the last fourteen years of his life, the time from his serious operation in 1941 until his death in the autumn of 1954. For Matisse these years were a true gift: he felt that the oper...
Dideh Iranian Fine Art: Iran on the Web
Mr. Nami Petgar one of the exhibiting Iranian painter describes it: It is as if a small window has been opened to my studio and a selection of my works has been put on display ...
Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Derriere le Miroir: 35 Original Engravings from the Magazine 1946 to 1982
The magazine, itself designed as an art object sumptuously presented in a large (38 x 28 cm) format, is illustrated with original lithographs as well as a number of reproductions. Poets and writers like Aragon, Beckett, Char, Eluard, Prévert, Quen...
Baltimore Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting
The Triumph of French Painting features more than thirty celebrated artists, including Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Picasso, an...
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: Chefs - d'Oeuvre du Misee de l'Orangerie
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Association for Visual Arts: Louis Jansen van Vuuren: Solo Exhibition
His work is represented in most major public and corporate art collections locally, including those of SANG, the Universities of Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape; First National Bank; Rand Merchant Bank; Investec; Boland ...
Cobra Museum: From Kandinsky till Corneille, Linoleum in art during the 20th century.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Photographs of Artists
Don't miss this opportunity to come face to face with artists represented in the Gallery's collection such as Henri...
Museum of Modern Art: ModernStarts: Places
Landscape painting between 1880 and 1920 ranged from idealized and allegorical depictions of nature, as seen in the ...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
Today, its population of 4,000 predominantly survive on tourism and fishing. The natural ...
Metropolitan Museum: Painters in Paris: 1895–1950
Painters in Paris: 1895–1950, an exhibition of more than 100 paintings by many of the 20th ...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Lee Krasner
While Krasner has been indelibly associated with Pollock, this show places her work in a larger context of painterly influences - including Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian - and chronicles her approach to pushi...
Phillips Collection: Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts September 23 through January 21, 2001 FUTURE . . . Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective Fe
By integrating works from The Phillips Collection into the Tannahill exhibition, Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from The Detroit Institute of Arts highlights the similarities and the differ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac
Flourishing from 1886 to 1906, the artists who worked in this avant-garde style came to be called Neo-Impressionists. The term was coined by art critic Félix F...
Hayward Gallery: BRASSAI: The Soul of Paris
'When you meet the man you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes’'
– Henry Miller on Brassaï IMAGE:
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Lovers in a Small Cafe near the Place d'Italie
1932 Brassaï Estate
on long term loan to ...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Tate Gallery: Britain s New National Museum of Modern Art, and Will Open to the Public for the First Time on 12 May.
Bankside Power Station has been transformed into Tate Modern by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The former Turbine Hall, running the whole length of the vast building, now marks a breathtaking entrance to the gallery. From...
National Gallery: Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting
Artists bring dress and drapery to life, showing us how to see and feel it. In responding to contemporary fashion, they present to each age a compelling image of how clothes should be worn. The exhibition opens with a striking series of paired pai...
Tate St. Ives: Patrick Heron: Garden Paintings
Heron was international in his outlook and in order to complement his exhibition a number of paintings by major figures of the modern movement will be displayed at Tate St Ives. These are the artists that he wrote about and include Mon...

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