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University of Michigan Museum of Art [23] Pierre à Feu, bookcover for "Les miroirs profonds: Henri Matisse", Paris, Pierre: 1947 Color lithograph on paper 24.29 cm x 20.96 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [24] Head: prior to 1948 Etching on paper 33 cm x 25.1 cm Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art [25]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Yellow Curtain (French: Le rideau jaune) is a painting by Henri Matisse created in 1915. Its size is 57½ × 38⅛" (146 × 97 cm). It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. Matisse's original title for the painting, Composition, draws attention to its abstract quality.
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).
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 ...
The Red Studio (French: L'Atelier Rouge) is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Henri Matisse from 1911. It is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art , in New York . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]