Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

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Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Offset print after Henri Matisse (*) Reproduction of the work “Nu Bleu II”, created by Matisse in 1952, which belongs to the collection of the Centre National d’Art Georges Pompidou. Printing authorized by the Matisse Estate. Edited by SIAE Signed on the plate. Specifications: - Support dimensions: 60 x 45 cm - Year: 1999 - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, thus in perfect condition). The work will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced flat cardboard package. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number. The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer. (*) Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in Cateau-Cambresis (France). Like Pierre Bonnard, Matisse studied Law. He began painting in 1890 and attended classes at the Julian Academy (1891-1892). He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1892 and joined Gustave Moreau’s workshop. The landscapes and still lifes he painted in that period are of classical style, though color is given preeminent importance. His first solo exhibition took place in 1904. The year before he had co-founded the Salon d’Automne and was part of the group of “La cage aux fauves” in 1905. Matisse is the true leader of the Fauvism movement, which caused such a stir; the artist applies vivid, flat colors on the canvas that convey the intensity of his emotions, simplifies forms and contours them with a black line. Travel to sunny countries (Corsica, the south of France, Algeria, Spain, Tahiti…) confirms his inclination to privilege color. Matisse paints landscapes, portraits, and compositions with figures. In 1907, the artist opened a painting school, the Matisse Academy, in his Paris studio. In 1910 he published “Notes of a Painter” in which he states: “what I pursue above all is expression.” The arabesque is among the motifs of this expression around 1910. He painted interiors, workshops, nudes. His free treatment of color and form provoked scandal at the Armory Show in which he participated in 1913. After World War I, Matisse dedicated himself to representing female figures, odalisques posing for him in color-shifting décors with arabesque and floral motifs. Matisse settled in Nice in 1921, where he would live until the end of his life. He drew series, etched, illustrated, created frescoes, designed theater sets and costumes, modeled busts and female nudes, painted and entered a new phase of experimentation from 1947: cut and pasted papers heightened with gouache; his work became more abstract. Matisse created the album “Jazz” in 1947 and another series of “Interiors” following the same scheme. Matisse died in Nice in 1954.

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