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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Studio with Goldfish (L’Atelier aux poissons rouges) (1912)

Henri Matisse

Blue Still Life (Nature morte bleue) (1907)

Henri Matisse

The Green Dress (La Robe verte) (1919)

Henri Matisse

Young Woman before an Aquarium (Jeune fille devant un aquarium) (1921-1922)

Henri Matisse

Le Bonheur de vivre, also called The Joy of Life (1905-1906)

Henri Matisse

High Tide (Pleine mer) (1920)

Henri Matisse

Moorish Woman (The Raised Knee) (Femme mauresque (Le Genou levé)) (1922-1923)

Henri Matisse

The Music Lesson (1917)

Henri Matisse

Woman and Screen (La Femme au paravent) (1919)

Henri Matisse

The Venetian Blinds (Les Persiennes) (1919)

Henri Matisse

Still Life with Gourds (Nature morte aux coloquintes) (1916)

Henri Matisse

Young Girl on a Balcony over the Ocean (Jeune fille au balcon sur la mer) (1918)

Henri Matisse

Woman Reclining (1921)

Henri Matisse

Red Madras Headdress (Le Madras rouge) (1907)

Henri Matisse

Domino Players (1921)

Henri Matisse

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