Matisse, Henri

Matisse, Henri
(12/31/1869 Le Cateau-11/3/1954 Nice) (France)
   Painter, sculptor, graphic artist, etcher, lithograph, and woodcut printmaker. Studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, under W.-A. Bouguereau, at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and in the studio of Guastave Moreau. A major figure in late 19th to early 20th century art, best known for his use of brilliant colors.
   Reproductions: Couple; Haught 1992: p. 72 . Female figure; Brusendorff, 1960b: p. 88 [B]. L'Apres — midi d'un faune; 1933: Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 156 [B]. "Tout est grand chez les rois," letter to Andre Rouveyre; 1952; Neret, 2000: p. 20 [B].
   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 9: pp. 546-552; DoA vol. 20: pp. 821-832; Janet Hobhouse, "Odalisques: what did these sensuous images really mean to Matisse?" Connoisseur (January 1987): pp. 60+; Jane Kinsman, Intimate Matisse (Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2000); Ellen McBreen, "Pinup and the primitive: eros and Africa in the sculpture of Henri Matisse (1906-1909)" (Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 2007), 576 leaves, ill.; ThB XXIV 1930: p. 248; Vollmer III 1956: p. 347; Norbert Wolf, Erotic sketches—Henri Matisse (Munich: Prestel, 2007), 63 p., ill.

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