Henri Matisse

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.Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.The intense colourism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (French for “wild beasts”). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he 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 paint

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The Codomas (1947)

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The swimmer in the tank (1947)

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Icarus (1947)

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Forms (1947)

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Monsieur Loyal (1947)

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The horse, the rider and the clown (1947)

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The wolf (1947)

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The heart (1947)

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Standing Nude near Window (1919-1920)

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The clown (1947)

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The circus (1947)

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Three Sisters and ‘The Rose Marble Table’ (Les Trois soeurs à ‘La Table de marbre rose’) (1917)

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Reclining Odalisque (Nu étendu) (1928)

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Blue Villa (1918)

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Seated Riffian (Le Rifain assis) (1912)

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Three Sisters with Grey Background (Les Trois soeurs sur fond gris) (1917)

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Head of a Young Girl (Tête de fillette) (1917)

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Interior with Two Figures, Open Window (1922)

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Three Sisters with an African Sculpture (Les Trois soeurs à la sculpture africaine) (1917)

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Chinese Casket (Le Coffret chinois) (1922)

Henri Matisse

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