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Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse 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.
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culture · French artist (1869–1954) · painter · sculptor · printmaker · lithographer · graphic artist · draftsperson · ceramicist · artist · designer · glass painter · also Henri Matisse, Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse, Henri Emile Benoît Matisse, Henri Emile Benoit Matisse, Henri-Emile-Benoît Matisse, Henri-Emile-Benoit Matisse
Born 31 December 1869 · Died 3 November 1954 · Q5589
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2026· 20 entries
Artsy: DECORATION MASQUES (ca. 1954) by Henri Matisse - For Sale
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Artsy: Untitled - LI4 (1942) by Henri Matisse - For Sale
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Thaddaeus Ropac: Alex Katz | Henri Matisse – Alex Katz. The Silence of Painting
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Artsy: Le Lagon II (The Lagoon II), from Jazz (1947-2005) by Henri Matisse - For Sale
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Hypebeast: HOMME PLISSÉ ISSEY MIYAKE Reimagines Henri Matisse’s "The Snail" in Pleats
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Artsy: La nageuse dans l'aquarium (The Swimmer in the Tank)… (1947) by Henri Matisse - For Sale
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Artsy: Polypheme From Ulysses (1935) by Henri Matisse - For Sale
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“s The Snail will be exhibited at Tate Liverpool, marking the first time it has been shown in the UK outside London. Artworks by Picasso, Constable and David Hockney will also be exhibited around the UK as part of the the scheme. Tate”
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Kuwait Times: Stolen Matisse works tied to infamous art thief in Brazil
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MutualArt: Henri Matisse | Nude (1918)
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El Litoral: La policía brasileña recuperó las ocho obras de Henri Matisse robadas de una biblioteca
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NewsCord: Brazilian Police Recover Eight Henri Matisse Works Stolen From Biblioteca Mário de Andrade: 26 outlets compared
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MoMA: Henri Matisse. Jeannette (III). Issy-les-Moulineaux, April - September 1910 or February - mid-July 1911
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LA17: Recuperan piezas de Henri Matisse y arrestan a un implicado en robo de biblioteca en San Pablo
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Agencia Noticias Argentinas: La policía brasileña recupera ocho obras de Henri Matisse robadas de una biblioteca en San Pablo
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Pulzo: Ocho grabados de Henri Matisse robados en la Biblioteca Mário de Andrade son recuperados en São Paulo
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Nuevaradio: La policía de Brasil ha recuperado varias obras de Henri Matisse sustraídas en São Paulo
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MutualArt.com: Henri Matisse's 5 Most Expensive Works: Color and Form in Modern Art
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2025· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Henri Matisse Never Really Left Morocco
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“Citation choisie pour le 29 juin 2025.”
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2024· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: Henri Matisse’s Modern Life and Legacy
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2023· 2 entries
New York Post: Former home of legendary French painter Henri Matisse lists for $2.69M
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, co-organized and exhibited Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism, an exhibit examining their work together and the birth of Fau
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2018· 1 entry
Matisse's work was exhibited alongside that of Joan Miró, Le Corbusier, Raymond Hains and Éric Sandillon at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga, Latvia
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2017· 1 entry
Artnet: Henri Matisse, Collector? See How the Artist’s Favorite Possessions Inspired His Groundbreaking Work
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2015· 2 entries
Artnet: 8 Inspirational Quotes by Henri Matisse on His Birthday
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Hyperallergic: The Art Books of Henri Matisse
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2014· 1 entry
Newsweek: Photos: Henri Matisse Cutouts: The Joy of ‘Painting With Scissors’
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2012· 1 entry
Matisse: In Search of True Painting was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in collaboration with the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, and the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
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2004· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Royal Academy of Arts, London and Le Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis organized Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams: His Art and His Textiles, displaying Matisse’s textile collection with
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1963· 1 entry
Is located in the Villa des Arènes, a seventeenth-century villa in the neighbourhood of Cimiez
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1954· 27 entries
Died 1954-11-03.
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“Si viviese más tiempo, podría pintar.”
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“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
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“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me." After a pause full of intense thought on my part, I asked: "But if one hasn't always emotion. What then?" "Do not paint," he quickly answered. "When I came in here to work this morning I had no emotion, so I took a horseback ride. When I returned I felt like painting, and had all the emotion I wanted.”
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“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”
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“We are born with the sensibility of a period of civilization. We are not masters of our production; it is imposed upon us.”
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“A picture must possess a real power to generate light.. ..for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.”
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“Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.”
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“It is only after years of preparation that the young [artist] should touch color — not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.”
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“I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me..”
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“I have been no more than a medium, as it were.”
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“The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.”
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“Dibujar es como hacer un gesto expresivo con la ventaja de la permanencia.”
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“L'esattezza non è la verità, diceva Delacroix.”
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“Desenhar é como fazer um gesto expressivo mas com a vantagem da permanência.”
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“El color, quizá más todavía que el dibujo, es una liberación.”
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“La exactitud no es la verdad.”
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“Quello che conta nella vetrata è il colore proiettato. L'importante non è la vetrata in sé, ma la luce generata all'interno della cappella. Mi sono dedicato troppo alla realizzazione della vetrata e non ho prestato sufficiente attenzione a ciò che da essa promana.”
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“Un dipinto fauvista è un blocco luminoso fatto di una consonanza di diversi colori, i quali formano un possibile spazio per lo spirito [...].”
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“Un pintor no tiene más enemigos que sus malos cuadros.”
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“I see with horror that the 'Salon Automne' is looming, for I haven't got, and shan't have, all I meant to be able to show there, the big stillife ['Harmony in Red'] has taken up so much of my time; but since I am content with the outcome, I tell myself one can't hope to be fast as well as good.”
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“Creare è proprio dell'artista; dove non c'è creazione, l'arte non esiste.”
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“Nel campo dell'arte, il creatore autentico non è solo un essere particolarmente dotato, è un uomo che ha saputo ordinare in vista del loro fine un insieme di attività, delle quali l'opera d'arte è il risultato finale.”
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“Vedere è già di per sé un atto creativo.”
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“Occorre sapere ancora conservare quella freschezza infantile a contatto con gli oggetti, salvare questa ingenuità.”
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“Penso che nulla sia più difficile per un vero pittore che dipingere una rosa, perché per dipingerla deve dimenticare tutte le rose che ha dipinto prima.”
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“Nella cappella di Vence, che rappresenta il compimento delle mie ricerche precedenti, ho tentato di realizzare questo equilibrio di forze; i blu, i verdi, i gialli delle vetrate creano all'interno una luce che non è, propriamente parlando, alcuno dei colori impiegati, ma il prodotto vivo della loro armonia, del rapporto fra essi.”
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1952· 1 entry
Matisse established a museum dedicated to his work, the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau, and this museum is now the third-largest collection of Matisse works in France
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1951· 1 entry
(and final sculpture the year before), Matisse utilized the paper cut-out as his sole medium for expression up until his death
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1948· 1 entry
Matisse began to prepare designs for the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence, which allowed him to expand this technique within a truly decorative context
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1946· 1 entry
And Matisse painted a chapel in Vence, a small town he moved to in 1943, in her honor
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1944· 1 entry
Matisse sometimes contacted her to request that she model for him
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1943· 1 entry
Where he produced his first major cut-out project for his artist's book titled Jazz
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1942· 1 entry
Pierre held an exhibition in New York, "Artists in Exile", which was to become legendary
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1941· 2 entries
Matisse underwent surgery that left him reliant on a wheelchair and often bed bound
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Matisse was diagnosed with duodenal cancer
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1940· 1 entry
“It seemed to me as if I would be deserting. If everyone who has any value leaves France, what remains of France?”
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1939· 2 entries
“Henri Matisse: contre vents et marées : peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943”
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“Notes d’un peintre sur son dessin », Le Point, XXI, juillet 1939, [lire en ligne].”
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1935· 1 entry
“Henri Matisse on Modernism and Tradition », The Studio, vol. IX, no50, mai 1935”
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1925· 2 entries
“Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say. (dall'intervista di Jacques Guenne,Interview with Henri Matisse, L'Art Vivant , 15 settembre 1925)”
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“Jacques Guenne, « Entretien avec Henri Matisse », L'Art vivant, no18, 15 septembre 1925, p. 5 [texte intégral] .”
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1919· 1 entry
During the design of decor for the Le chant du rossignol, an opera composed by Igor Stravinsky
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1918· 3 entries
“In a short text of Matisse, 1918, written for the catalogue of 'Den Franske Utstilling', 1918, Copenhagen; as quoted in Matisse on Art, Jack Flam, University of California Press 1995 p. 272, note 2”
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“In a letter to a friend, Nice 1918, as quoted in 'Matisse & Picasso', Paul Trachtman, Smithsonian Magazine, February 2003, p. 6”
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“préface du catalogue de l'exposition « Matisse-Picasso », 23 janvier-15 février 1918, à la galerie Paul Guillaume.”
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1917· 2 entries
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
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Matisse relocated to Cimiez on the French Riviera, a suburb of the city of Nice
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1914· 2 entries
“Letter to Camoin, Autumn 1914; as quoted in Matisse on Art, Jack Flam, University of California Press 1995 p. 275, note 5”
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“In a letter to Camoin, Autumn 1914; as quoted in Matisse on Art, Jack Flam, University of California Press 1995 p. 275, note 5”
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1912· 1 entry
And again in 1913 and while painting in Tangier he made several changes to his work, including his use of black as a colour
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1910· 1 entry
Spent two months in Spain studying Moorish art
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1908· 3 entries
“Letter to Sergei Shchukin [the Russian buyer of his still-life The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room), that year], 6 August 1908; as quoted by w:Hilary Spurling, The Unknown Matisse: Man of the North, 1869 – 1908, Penguin UK, 28 September 2006, note 182”
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“Notes d’un peintre », 1908.”
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“Notes d’un peintre », La Grande Revue, vol. 53, 25 décembre 1908 [texte intégral]”
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1907· 3 entries
Guillaume Apollinaire, commenting about Matisse in an article published in La Falange, wrote, "We are not here in the presence of an extravagant or an extremist undertaking: Matisse's art is eminently reasonable
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“Guillaume Apollinaire, « Henri Matisse », La Phalange, no18, décembre 1907 [texte intégral] .”
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“In order to paint a rose you have to forget every painting of a rose that”
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1905· 2 entries
“painted in bold color and loose brushstrokes that defied convention
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Travelled southwards again to work with André Derain at Collioure
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1899· 1 entry
Devoted much of his energy to working in clay, completing The Slave in 1903
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1898· 2 entries
On the advice of Camille Pissarro, he went to London to study the paintings of J
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Married Amélie Noellie Parayre; the two raised Marguerite together and had two sons, Jean (born 1899) and Pierre (born 1900)
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1896· 1 entry
Matisse, an unknown art student at the time, visited the Australian painter John Russell on the island of Belle Île off the coast of Brittany
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1891· 1 entry
Returned to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts under Gustave Moreau
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1889· 1 entry
After his mother brought him art supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis
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1887· 1 entry
Went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification
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1869· 3 entries
Born 1869-12-31.
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“Suddenly.. .I grasped why I was a painter. All alone in that museum, surrounded by masks, Red Indian dolls, dummies covered with dust. The Demoiselles must have come that day.. ..because it was my first exorcising picture.”
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The oldest son of a wealthy grain merchant
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