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University of Michigan Museum of Art [10] Head of a Man, Flowered Background: Tête d'homme, fond fleuri: 1914 Etching on paper 24.4 x 19.4 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [11] Irene - Face: Irène - Masque: 1914 Etching on chine collé 8.25 cm x 5.72 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [12]
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
Albert Barnes became one of Matisse's most important patrons. In addition to a commissioned mural in 1932 Dance II, 1932 Barnes acquired many paintings and drawings by Matisse. Pierre Matisse, who was Matisse's son living in New York City, was instrumental in facilitating Barnes in purchasing works from his father. During the early-to-mid-1940s ...
A still life, the painting features "Matisse's own plants, his own garden furniture, and his own fish tank." [2] Additionally, Matisse's "depiction of space" in the piece creates a tension. The goldfish can be seen from two different angles simultaneously: from the front, where the viewer can immediately recognise them, and from above, where ...
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Bathers with a Turtle by Henri Matisse in 1907-1908 Henri Matisse. The painting reworks elements from Matisse's 1897 work The Desert. [1] While that work was in an Impressionist style, the intense colors of the later painting are more consistent with Fauvism. The red of the room contrasts with the dark green of the landscape depicted outside ...
View of Notre-Dame (1914). Oil on canvas, 58 x 37 1/8" (147.3 x 94.3 cm). In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. View of Notre-Dame (French: Une vue de Notre-Dame) is an oil painting by Henri Matisse from 1914.
In March 1909, Matisse painted a preliminary version of this work, known as Dance (I). [3] It was a compositional study and uses paler colors and less detail. [4] The painting was highly regarded by the artist who once called it "the overpowering climax of luminosity"; it is also featured in the background of Matisse's Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance I", (1912).