Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.[1] 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.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
| 2008 |
Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes from the Etta and Claribel Cone Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
| 2007 |
Matisse - Painter as Sculptor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 2007 |
Henri Matisse - Prints and Bronzes from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
| 2007 |
Henri Matisse - The Thousand and One Nights, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
| 2007 |
Picasso & Matisse, Andipa Gallery, London |
| 2006 |
Picasso Matisse: Prints and Drawings, Andipa gallery, London |
| 2006 |
"La Danza delle Avanguardie," Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto |
| 2006 |
"Henri Matisse: The Thousand and One Nights," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
| 2006 |
"Tapestries," Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL |
| 2006 |
"Matisse: A Figurative Femininity," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
| 2006 |
"Stock 06/07/2006," Waddington Galleries, London, UK |
| 2006 |
"Modern and Contemporary Masters," Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2006 |
"French Master Drawings: From Manet and Degas to Matisse and Picasso," Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen |
| 2006 |
"Société Anonyme: Modernism in America," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 |
"Matisse: Jazz," The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 2006 |
"Henri Matisse: Figur Farbe Raum," Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
| 2005 |
"MATISSE &," Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen |
| 2005 |
"Henri Matisse: Une Seconde Vie," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
| 2005 |
"Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| 2005 |
"Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905-1914," Musée d'art moderne de Céret, Céret |
| 2005 |
"Hommage à Matisse," Artiscope, Brussels |
| 2005 |
"Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes from the Claribel and Etta Cone Collection," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
| 2005 |
"Color/Pattern/Grid," Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
| 2005 |
"Masterworks from The Phillips Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 2005 |
"Matisse - Picasso. Ihr künstlerischer Dialog im buchillustrativen Schaffen," Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Münster |
| 2005 |
"Major Prints," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2004 |
"Fauve Painting in the Permanent Collection," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| 2004 |
"Woman: Metamorphosis of Modernity," Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
| 2004 |
"What´s modern?" Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2004 |
"Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2004 |
"The Flower as Image," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
| 2004 |
"Matisse, Picasso: Lithographs & Etchings," Catherine Hodgkinson, London, UK |
| 2004 |
"The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| 2004 |
"Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2004 |
"Henri Matisse," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2004 |
"Matisse-Jazz: Carving Space with Colors," Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba |
| 2003 |
"Picasso-Matisse," Galerie Jeanne, Munich; Galerie Jan Krugier, Dietesheim & Cie, Geneva; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| 2003 |
"Henri Matisse," Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
| 2003 |
"Renoir, Gauguin, Degas..." Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
| 2003 |
"Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
| 2003 |
"Old Masters, Impressionists & Moderns: French Masterworks from the Pushkin Museum," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2003 |
"Classic to Modern: French Works on Paper, 1800-1950," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2003 |
"Matisse: Papiers découpés," Sammlung Berggruen, Berlin |
| 2003 |
"Modern Bronze: Masterworks from a Private Collection," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
| 2003 |
"Voyage into Myth: Gauguin to Matisse," Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Quebec |
| 2003 |
"Masterworks from El Greco to Picasso in The Phillips Collection," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
| 2002 |
"Henri Matisse. Mit der Schere zeichnen," Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
| 2002 |
"Millet to Matisse," Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
| 2002 |
"Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| 2002 |
"Gauguin to Matisse: French Masterpieces from Russias Hermitage Museum," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
| 2002 |
"Prints and Drawings from Picasso's Paris," Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK |
| 2002 |
"Henri Matisse," Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao; Galerie Thomas, Munich |
| 2002 |
"Belle-Île: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany," Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
| 2002 |
"From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso," Palazzo Grassi, Venice |
| 2002 |
"Matisse and Belfast," Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| 2002 |
"Henri Matisse/Ellsworth Kelly: dessins de plantes," Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
| 2001 |
"The Kindness of Friends: A Selection of Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1919-2000," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2001 |
"A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| 2001 |
"Matisse: Espíritu y Sentido," Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
| 2001 |
"Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
"Masterpieces and Master Collectors," Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas |
| 2001 |
"Le Fauvisme en noir et blanc," Musée d'art moderne de Céret |
| 2001 |
"Grands maîtres des XIXe et XXe siècles," Galerie Schmit, Paris |
| 2001 |
"Ornament und Abstraktion," Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
| 2001 |
"Von Rodin bis Baselitz: Der Torso in der Skulptur der Moderne," Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
| 2001 |
"The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
| 2000 |
"Master-Prints," Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition, Berlin |
| 2000 |
"La révolte de la couleur. De limpressionnisme aux avant-gardes." Musée d'Ixelles, Museum van Elsene, Brussels |
| 2000 |
"Matisse: The Art of Drawing," Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA |
| 2000 |
"Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
| 2000 |
"Face to Face: Artists & Their Work," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
| 2000 |
"be-SCHAU-lich," Galerie Thomas, Munich |
| 2000 |
"Farbe Licht," Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
| 2000 |
"Painters in Paris: 1895-1950," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| 2000 |
"Stilleben von Bernard bis Morandi," Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Berlin |
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