Henri Matisse

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.

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

Henri Matisse – Prints and Bronzes from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

Henri Matisse – The Thousand and One Nights, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA

Picasso & Matisse, Andipa Gallery, London

2006

Picasso Matisse: Prints and Drawings, Andipa gallery, London

“La Danza delle Avanguardie,” Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto

“Henri Matisse: The Thousand and One Nights,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA

“Tapestries,” Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL

“Matisse: A Figurative Femininity,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

“Stock 06/07/2006,” Waddington Galleries, London, UK

“Modern and Contemporary Masters,” Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY

“French Master Drawings: From Manet and Degas to Matisse and Picasso,” Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen

“Société Anonyme: Modernism in America,” UCLA

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

“Matisse: Jazz,” The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

“Henri Matisse: Figur Farbe Raum,” Foundation Beyeler, Riehen

2005

“MATISSE &,” Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen

“Henri Matisse: Une Seconde Vie,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

“Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

“Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905-1914,” Musée d’art moderne de Céret, Céret

“Hommage à Matisse,” Artiscope, Brussels

“Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes from the Claribel and Etta Cone Collection,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

“Color/Pattern/Grid,” Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

“Masterworks from The Phillips Collection,” The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

“Matisse – Picasso. Ihr künstlerischer Dialog im buchillustrativen Schaffen,” Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Münster“Major Prints,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004

“Fauve Painting in the Permanent Collection,” The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

“Woman: Metamorphosis of Modernity,” Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona2004“What´s modern?” Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

“Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

“The Flower as Image,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

“Matisse, Picasso: Lithographs & Etchings,” Catherine Hodgkinson, London, UK

“The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

“Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

“Henri Matisse,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“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

“Henri Matisse,” Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia

“Renoir, Gauguin, Degas…” Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart

“Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

“Old Masters, Impressionists & Moderns: French Masterworks from the Pushkin Museum,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

“Classic to Modern: French Works on Paper, 1800-1950,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

“Matisse: Papiers découpés,” Sammlung Berggruen, Berlin

“Modern Bronze: Masterworks from a Private Collection,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

“Voyage into Myth: Gauguin to Matisse,” Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Quebec

“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

“Millet to Matisse,” Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

“Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

“Gauguin to Matisse: French Masterpieces from Russias Hermitage Museum,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

“Prints and Drawings from Picasso’s Paris,” Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

“Henri Matisse,” Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao; Galerie Thomas, Munich

“Belle-Île: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany,” Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

“From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso,” Palazzo Grassi, Venice

“Matisse and Belfast,” Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland

“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

“A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt,” The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

“Matisse: Espíritu y Sentido,” Fundación Juan March, Madrid

“Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

“Masterpieces and Master Collectors,” Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas

“Le Fauvisme en noir et blanc,” Musée d’art moderne de Céret“Grands maîtres des XIXe et XXe siècles,” Galerie Schmit, Paris

“Ornament und Abstraktion,” Foundation Beyeler, Riehen

“Von Rodin bis Baselitz: Der Torso in der Skulptur der Moderne,” Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart

“The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

2000

“Master-Prints,” Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition, Berlin

“La révolte de la couleur. De limpressionnisme aux avant-gardes.” Musée d’Ixelles, Museum van Elsene, Brussels

“Matisse: The Art of Drawing,” Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA

“Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

“Face to Face: Artists & Their Work,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

“be-SCHAU-lich,” Galerie Thomas, Munich2000“Farbe Licht,” Foundation Beyeler, Riehen

“Painters in Paris: 1895-1950,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

“Stilleben von Bernard bis Morandi,” Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Berlin