Artist
Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954
Henri Matisse was a French Fauvism painter. 198 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art, most of them oil paintings. Henri Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis.
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French:; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
The intense colourism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (French for "wild beasts"). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.
After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form. When ill health in his final years prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage. 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.
Works by Henri Matisse
Festival of Flowers, Nice (Fête des fleurs)
The Three O'Clock Sitting
View of Collioure
Laurette in a Green Robe, Black Background
The Young Sailor II
Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance" I
Olive Trees at Collioure
Interior at Nice
Girl by a Window
Espagnole: Harmonie en bleu (Spanish Woman: Harmony in Blue)
Still Life with Vegetables
Odalisque with Raised Arms
Marguerite Wearing a Hat
Marguerite with Black Velvet Ribbon
The Goldfish Bowl
Lilacs
Seated Odalisque
Odalisque, Harmony in Red
Fruit and Coffeepot
Still Life with Blue Tablecloth
Music
Lemons on a Pewter Plate
Interior with an Etruscan Vase (Intérieur au vase étrusque)
The Windshield, On the Road to Villacoublay
Game of Bowls
Bathers by a River
Woman Before an Aquarium
Dance II
Nymph and Faun
The Geranium
Apples
Chapel of Saint Joseph, Saint-Tropez
Collections represented
Moments involving Henri Matisse
- The Armory Show Opens · 1913 It became the canonical starting point for modern art's broad public reception in the United States.
- Opening of the Armory Show · 1913 It fundamentally altered the trajectory of American art by legitimizing modernism and shifting the center of the art world from Paris to New York.
- New York Armory Show Run Ends · 1913 It accelerated American engagement with Cubism, Fauvism, and modernist collecting.
- Salon des Indépendants Opens · 1905 The exhibition launched the Fauvist movement, permanently altering the trajectory of color usage in 20th-century painting.
- Salon d'Automne 1905 — the Cage aux Fauves · 1905 The first of the twentieth century's named avant-gardes: color freed from description, a precedent every Expressionist current built on.
- Barnes Foundation opens in Merion · 1925 The Barnes became one of the most influential and contested private art collections turned public educational institution in the United States.
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