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Henri Matisse

(French, 1869–1954)

Henri Matisse

Nu de plein pied assis sur une colonne, 1940

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Biography

Timeline

1869: Born: Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
1882 - 1887: Attended the College de Saint-Quentin and the Lycée Henri- Martin at Saint-Quentin, France
1887 - 1889: Studied law in Paris, France
1889: Studied drawing at the municipal Ecole Quentin de La Tour, a school of décorative arts, Saint-Quentin, France
1891: Studied at the Academy Julien with Gabriel Ferrier and Adolphe-W. Bouguereau
1892: Studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
1895: Entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1896: Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1905: Worked with André Derain in the little coastal town of Collioure, France
1927: Won first prize at Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, PA
1950: Won Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1952: Matisse museum is inaugurated, Le Cateau-Cambresis, France
1954: Died:Cimiez, France

Exhibitions

2010: Les photographes de Matisse, nouvelles acquisitions, Les photographies de Matisse à Tahiti, Musée Henri Matisse, Nice, France (solo)
2009: Matisse – Rodin, un parcours sans fin, Musée Henri Matisse, Nice, France (solo)
L’objet dans l’œuvre de Matisse, Musée Henri Matisse, Nice, France (solo)
2008: Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes from the Etta and Claribel Cone Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo)
2007 - 2008: Matisse : en pensant à René Char, Musée Henri Matisse, Nice, France (solo)
2007: Matisse - Painter as Sculptor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Henri Matisse - Prints and Bronzes from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo)
Henri Matisse - The Thousand and One Nights, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA (solo)
Picasso & Matisse, Andipa Gallery, London, UK
2006: Picasso Matisse: Prints and Drawings, Andipa gallery, London, UK
La Danza delle Avanguardie, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
Tapestries, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Matisse: A Figurative Femininity, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (solo)
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, Denmark
Matisse: Jazz, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
2005: MATISSE &, Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Henri Matisse: Une Seconde Vie, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, LA (solo)
Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (solo)
Hommage à Matisse, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes from the Claribel and Etta Cone Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo)
Masterworks from The Phillips Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2004: Fauve Painting in the Permanent Collection, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Matisse, Picasso: Lithographs & Etchings, Catherine Hodgkinson, London, UK
The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
Henri Matisse, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2003: Henri Matisse, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (solo)
Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo)
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, Germany (solo)
Voyage into Myth: Gauguin to Matisse, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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, Gremany (solo)
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, Canada
Henri Matisse, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain; Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany (solo)
From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Matisse and Belfast, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland (solo)
Henri Matisse/Ellsworth Kelly: dessins de plantes, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
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, Spain (solo)
Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Grands maîtres des XIXe et XXe siècles, Galerie Schmit, Paris, France
The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2000: Master-Prints, Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition, Berlin, Germany
Matisse: The Art of Drawing, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (solo)
Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (solo)
Face to Face: Artists & Their Work, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Painters in Paris: 1895-1950, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1999: Matisse and Picasso, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
The Elise S. Haas Collection - Matisse and Other Modern masters, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Do impresionismo ao Fauvismo. Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1998: Recent Acquisitions and New Work, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Von Matisse bis Dali. Die Kunst zu Sammeln - Das Legat Georges F. Keller, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Au fil du trait : de Matisse à Basquiat - Carré d´art, Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
The Origins of Modern Art in France - 1880-1939, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Master Drawings of the Twentieth Century, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Artists and Subjects: Picasso to Stella, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1997: L'última mirada, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Encounters With Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Etchings of the Twentieth Century, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1996: Master Classes: What classifies an artist as a Master, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Manet bis Van Gogh - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1993: Modern Masters and the Figure: Picasso to de Kooning - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987: The Window in Twentieth-Century Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1985: Les vingt ans du Musée à travers sa collection, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
1981: Medio Siglo de Escultura: 1900-1945, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1966: Matisse und seine Freunde – les Fauves - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1953: Berggruen et Cie, Paris, France (solo)
Retrospective, The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
1951: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
1949: Pierre Matisse gallery, New York, NY
Musée National d' Art Moderne, Paris, France (solo)
1948: Retrospective, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
1945: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Retrospective, Salon d' Automne, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
1936: Paul Rosenberg Gallery, Paris, France
1931: Retrospective, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, France (solo)
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
The Museum of Modem Art, New York, NY
1930: Retrospective, Thannhauser Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1927: Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York, NY
1924: Retrospective, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Retrospective, Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
1921: Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France
1920: Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France
1919: Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
1915: Montross Gallery, New York, NY
1914: Gurlitt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1913: Armory Show, New York, NY
Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
1910: Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
291 gallery, New York, NY
1908: 291 gallery, New York, NY
Salon d' Automne, Paris, France
1906: Galerie Druet, Paris, France (solo)
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
1905: Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
1903: Salon d' Automne, Paris, France
1902: Berthe Weill Gallery, Paris, France
1901: Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
1897: Salon of the Nationale, Paris, France
1896: Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
: SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Tate Britain, London, UK
Tate Modern, London, UK
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Musée d´Orsay, Paris, France
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
Musée National de l´Orangerie, Paris, France
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Literature

2006: Wright, Alastair. Matisse and the Subject of Modernism Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006
2005: Spurling, Hilary. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 2, The Conquest of Colour 1909 - 1954. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2005
1998: Spurling, Hilary Spurling. The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 1, 1869-1908. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1998
1984: Schneider, Pierre. Matisse. New York, Rizzoli, 1984
1979: Gowing, Lawrence. Matisse. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979

Henri Matisse

(French, 1869–1954)

Henri Matisse

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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