Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

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Artist: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
Nationality: French
Movement: Fauvism
Media: Painting
Influences:

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: (60)
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Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Matisse: Modern Figures and Portraits 1906 - 1939
Shortly after the close of World War I, Matisse, Picasso and many other Avant Garde artists returned to familiar styles, as though they were attempting to restore stability to their lives in war torn Europe. At that time, Matisse settled mainly i...
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 ...
Phoenix Art Museum: Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse and More
The 13 case-studies in the exhibition provide an unprecedented opportunity to compare different versions of masterpieces and to instigate a conversation about originality and mastery. This exhibition will be on view at only two locations in the c...
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 ...
White Room Gallery: Living Colour: Paintings by John Nolan
John has been inspired by the work of many artists, including Vincent Van Gogh, Howard Hodgkins, Tony O Malley, Albert Irvin, Louis le brocquy, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, the list is endless. His father, who was an artis...
Richard Green: The Shape of Colour: Works by Patrick Heron
Throughout his career he remained devoted to French art and was particularly influenced by Georges Braque, Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard, while recognising the major significance of post-war American Abstract Expressionism. Throughout his care...
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...
Statens Museum of Art, Denmark's National Gallery: Andre Derain. An Outsider in French Art
From the shocking start to the late experiments The starting point of the exhibition is the years surrounding André Derain's breakthrough in 1905, a year which became a milestone in recent art history. This was the year when Derain and his friend...
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 ...
ARTROM: : Reformatting the Still Life
This was reflected in an increasing compulsion to enhance and document one’s personal, sensual pleasure - and resulted in an upsurge in the popularity of the painted image, particularly the still life. These paintings became must have items in tha...
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...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Last Chance! Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
Appleton Museum of Art: 20th Century Masterworks from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto
Until now, this collection has not been available for loan during the 100-year history of the AGO. Following their exhibition at Appleton, these masterworks will return to Toronto and be re-installed in the AGO permanent collection galleries. The ...

Further Artwork and Information:

WebMuseum: Matisse, Henri (-Émile-Benoît)
Henri Matisse Online
Henri Matisse Art Gallery
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Henri Matisse - Art Images - Works and Biography - OCAIW
Henri Matisse - Olgas Gallery
Henri Matisse | Fauves Artist
Lucidcafé Interactive Café and Information Resource
Global Gallery - Matisse Prints and Posters - Search Results

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