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Henri Matisse
"My eyes wide open, I absorb all things like the sponge sucks the liquid."
+ Coup de coeur
"Coup de coeur" by Henri Matisse
Portraits - Décembre 2010
Pour illustrer l'ouvrage « Repli » d'André Rouveyre, Matisse suggère à l'auteur : « Et si on mettait tes portraits dans ton livre avec ceux de la jeune femme. Vois-tu çà ? ». La jeune femme de ce récit intimiste, il la perçoit « sensible, passionnée, soumise ». Ainsi dans un face à face silencieux, six portraits féminins illustrent la première partie du texte « Retourner » et six portraits d'André Rouveyre la seconde partie « Revoir et survivre ».
Dès 1929, Matisse accorde une grande attention au dessin et à son oeuvre gravé. Deux domaines où il a à coeur d'approcher au plus près de son ressenti : « C'est en rentrant dans l'objet qu'on rentre dans sa propre peau ». La ligne y est reine, signe et abandon. Elle est la révélation des sensations furtives que l'intuition adresse à l'inconscient et dont naît le sentiment. Noire, légère, elle crée lumière et espace sur la feuille, se fait écriture des états d'âme et de l'esprit. Ses dessins jaillissent d'un élan intérieur, élan fragile projeté dans un trait épuré, tel un exercice de haute voltige, de grâce.
Ces portraits, réalisés pour ce volume, d'une grande profondeur, imprimés en lithographie, sont le miroir de l'intériorité. Ils restituent le sentiment d'une vie secrète, d'un monde en soi, à soi, ardent et sans limites, un monde de liberté absolue. Matisse disait à ses élèves : « Ne retenez que ce qui ne se voit pas ».
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Stamp by Henri Matisse
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Letter to Jacques Kober, poet
Jacques Kober Collection / This document is not for sale
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A tribute to Henri Matisse
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Matisse meurt le 3 novembre 1954 à Nice et repose sur la colline de Cimiez, au coeur d’une grande oliveraie qui domine la ville, à quelques pas du musée qui lui est consacré, à quelques pas de l’hôtel Regina où il vécut de 1938 jusqu’à la fin de ses jours. Nous avons choisi la fleur du cyclamen blanc, fleur posée en bouquet sur sa tombe.
"Laissez-faire, ses carafes sont bien d'aplomb sur la table et je puis poser mon chapeau sur leurs bouchons. C'est l'essentiel." - Gustave Moreau
"D’une œuvre à l’autre Matisse a montré davantage à quel équilibre il menait ses forces, à quelle domination de lui-même il s’élevait." - Jules Romains
"Matisse, la couleur, Picasso, la forme. Deux grandes tendances, un grand but." - Wassily Kandinsky
"On laisse toujours trop de tableaux ... Un peintre n'a vraiment d'ennemis sérieux que ses mauvais tableaux." - Henri Matisse
"Quand je mets un vert, ça ne veut pas dire de l'herbe, quand je mets un bleu, ça ne veut pas dire du ciel." - Henri Matisse
"Matisse a quatre-vingt-quatre ans arrive à tenir la fulgurance, même avec des bouts de papier." - Nicolas de Staël
Notes of biography
Henri Matisse was born in 1869 at Cateau-Cambrésis (France). Like Pierre Bonnard, he studied law. He began to paint in 1890 and took lessons at the Julian Academy (1892-1892). He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (art-school) in Paris in 1892 and worked under Gustave Moreau. Colour was already beginning to play an important role is his landscapes and still-life paintings. In 1904 he organised his first exhibition.
The previous year, Matisse had been one of the founders of the Salon d’Autumn (autumn exhibition) in which he took part in 1905, in the famous “cage aux fauves”. He was the veritable leader of the Fauvism movement which caused such a scandal. The artist painted his canvases in flat tints of strong colour, in simple forms outlined in black, to illustrate the intensity of his emotions. His travels which took him through numerous sunny countries (Corsica, South of France, Algeria, Spain, Tahiti etc.) stimulated his desire to use more colour. Matisse painted landscapes, portraits, compositions with characters.
In 1907 the artist opened an art school the “Matisse Academy in his studio in Paris. In 1908 he published “Notes d’un peintre” (A painter’s notes) in which he affirms “I’m trying above all to be expressive”. Around 1910 the arabesque became one of the figures he used to express himself. He painted interiors, studios, and nudes. The way he freely used his colours and forms caused a scandal at the Armory Show in which he participated in 1913.
At the end of the First World War Matisse started creating feminine characters, odalisques who posed for him in the midst of shimmering sceneries, arabesque designs and flowers.
Matisse moved to Nice in 1921 where he was to remain. He drew, he drew in series, he engraved, he illustrated, he created frescos, scenery, he designed ballet costumes, created models of busts and of female nudes, he painted ; then in1947 he begun a new experimental period: he cut and stuck paper touched up with gouache; his work became more abstract. In 1947 Matisse created the album “Jazz”, and another series of “interiors” based on the same principles.
Henri Matisse died in Nice in 1954.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« L'Opera di Matisse, 1904-1928 », M. Carra, Rizzoli Editore, Milan, 1971 *« The sculpture of Henri Matisse », A. E. Elsen, Harry Abrams Publisher, New York, 1971 *« The paper cut-outs », J. Cowart et D. Fourcade, St Louis Art Museum et Detroit Institute of Art, 1977 *« Tout l’oeuvre peint de Matisse, 1904-1928 », M. Carra et X. Deryng, Flammarion, 1982
*« L’oeuvre gravé », 2 Vol., C. Duthuit, C. Duthuit, Paris, 1983
*« The drawings of Henri Matisse », J. Elderfield, Times & Hudson et The Museum of Modern Art, Londres - New York, 1984
*« Henri Matisse, livres illustrés », C. Duthuit, C. Duthuit, Paris, 1988
*« Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune », 2 Vol., M. et G.-P. Dauberville, Ed. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1995
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Portraits », André Sauret, Ed. du Livre, Monte-Carlo, 1952
- « Matisse, le rythme et la ligne » J. et M. Guillaud, Guillaud Ed. Paris/NY 1987
- « Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune » 2 vol M &G-P Dauberville Ed Bernheim Paris 1995
- « Matisse et l’Océanie », Musée Matisse, Le Cateau Cambrésis, 1998
- « Matisse », Rémi Labrusse, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1999
- « De la couleur à l'architecture », R. Percheron, Ed. Citadelles & Mazenod, 2002
- « Henri Matisse », Pierre Schneider, Ed. Flammarion, 2008
- « Matisse : paires et séries », col., cat. d'expo., Ed. Centre Pompidou, 2012
- « Henri Matisse : Le laboratoire intérieur », cat., Musée de Lyon, Ed. R.M.N., 2016
- « Matisse in the studio », E. McBreen, H. Burnham, Museum of Boston, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Henri Matisse, écrits et propos sur l’art », D. Fourcade, Hermann, Paris, 1989
- « Jazz », fac-similé, Ed. La Martinière, 2013
Website :
www.musee-matisse-nice.orgMore :
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Stamp by Henri Matisse
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Letter to Jacques Kober, poet
Jacques Kober Collection / This document is not for sale
+ Listen
Listen
+ Watch
Watch
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Henri Matisse
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Matisse meurt le 3 novembre 1954 à Nice et repose sur la colline de Cimiez, au coeur d’une grande oliveraie qui domine la ville, à quelques pas du musée qui lui est consacré, à quelques pas de l’hôtel Regina où il vécut de 1938 jusqu’à la fin de ses jours. Nous avons choisi la fleur du cyclamen blanc, fleur posée en bouquet sur sa tombe.
"Laissez-faire, ses carafes sont bien d'aplomb sur la table et je puis poser mon chapeau sur leurs bouchons. C'est l'essentiel." - Gustave Moreau
"D’une œuvre à l’autre Matisse a montré davantage à quel équilibre il menait ses forces, à quelle domination de lui-même il s’élevait." - Jules Romains
"Matisse, la couleur, Picasso, la forme. Deux grandes tendances, un grand but." - Wassily Kandinsky
"On laisse toujours trop de tableaux ... Un peintre n'a vraiment d'ennemis sérieux que ses mauvais tableaux." - Henri Matisse
"Quand je mets un vert, ça ne veut pas dire de l'herbe, quand je mets un bleu, ça ne veut pas dire du ciel." - Henri Matisse
"Matisse a quatre-vingt-quatre ans arrive à tenir la fulgurance, même avec des bouts de papier." - Nicolas de Staël
Art movements
+ ARMORY SHOW / 1913 / Constantin Brancusi, Charles Camoin, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, etc.
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