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Henri Matisse

Matisse

1869 Le Cateau/Nordfrankreich
1954 Cimiez bei Nizza

Matisse, one of the great reformers of European painting in the first half of the 20th century, studied law and graduated at the age of 21. He then began painting Impressionist and Pointillist paintings at the Académie Julian and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His works are characterised by increasingly simplified forms and brilliant colours which he developed after studying neo-Impressionist ideas about colour. The passionate colours of his works led to them being criticised as 'Fauves'(wild ones) at the Paris autumn Salon in 1905. Matisse thus became the main protagonist in a circle of young artists which also included Derain, Manguin and Rouault. Colour to Matisse was the pure means of creating an autonomous picture space. Figural motifs no longer possess their material function so that there is no impression of space. Two-dimensionally-decorative, arabesque-like elements dominate his interiors, still-lifes, nudes, portraits and landscapes. His oeuvre includes not only drawings, engravings, lithographs and linoleum cuts but also book illustrations, for example the poems by Stéphane Mallarmé or Beaudelaire's 'Les Fleurs du Mal'. A typical feature among Matisse's Oeuvre are the pictures made of cutout coloured paper, some of which he also produced as lithographs. The artist's sculptures, small figural bronze statues, played an important role in the development of modern sculpture. In 1908 Matisse founded his own school which particularly influenced German painters such as Purrmann or Levy. He spent the winters of 1911/12 and 1913/14 in Morocco, an experience which is reflected in the 1920s in his series of 'Odalisks'. From 1917 Matisse spent most of his time in Nice. His career reached a peak when he was commissioned to paint the interior and to design the stained-glass windows of the monastery chapel Notre-Dame du Rosaire in Vence near Nice which was dedicated in 1951.

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Matisse, Henri

Henri Matisse - Plakat: Travail et Joie

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 324
Lithograph in colours 1948
7,500 EUR / 9,450 $
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Henri Matisse - Le Cauchemar de l'éléphant blanc

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 325
Pochoir in colours 1943
4,500 EUR / 5,670 $
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Henri Matisse - La Silence habité des maisons

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 326
Etching and aquatint in colours 1947
3,800 EUR / 4,788 $
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Henri Matisse - Buste de jeune Fille, les bras croisés

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 321
Lithograph 1925
3,800 EUR / 4,788 $
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Henri Matisse - Ronsard, Florilège des Amours

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 322
Lithograph 1948
2,800 EUR / 3,528 $
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Henri Matisse - Vierge à l'enfant au décor fleuri

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 323
Lithograph in colours 1949
2,000 EUR / 2,520 $
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Sale 330 - Dec. 05, 07
Lot 222
Etching and aquatint 1952
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Matisse, Henri

Sale 306 - Dec. 05, 06
Lot 127
Lithograph 1924
16,660 EUR / 20,991 $
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Matisse, Henri

Sale 282 - May 05/06., 03
Lot 41
Lithograph 1923
14,950 EUR / 18,837 $
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