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Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) was active/lived in France.  Henri Matisse is known for Fauve modernist painting; sculpture.

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Henri Matisse came from a family who were of Flemish origin and lived near the Belgian border.  At eight o'clock on the evening of December 31, 1869, he was born in his grandparents' home in the town of Le Cateau in the cheerless far north of France. His father was a self-made seed merchant who was a mixture of determination and tightly coiled tension.

Henri had no clear idea of what he wanted to do with his life.  He was a twenty-year-old law clerk convalescing from appendicitis when he first began to paint, using a box of colors given to him by his mother.  Little more than a year later, in 1890, he had abandoned law and was studying art in Paris.  The classes consisted of drawing from plaster casts and nude models and of copying paintings in the Louvre. He soon rebelled against the school's conservative atmosphere; he replaced the dark tones of his earliest works with brighter colors that reflected his awareness of Impressionism. Matisse was   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 24661 characters.]  Artist bio

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Odalisque couchée aux magnolias (Estimate on request) , 1923

Henri Matisse

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Nu de dos, 4 état (Back IV) , 1978

Henri Matisse

Lot 65
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Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose , 1911

Henri Matisse

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L'Odalisque, harmonie bleue , 1937

Henri Matisse

Lot 24
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BOUQUET DE FLEURS POUR LE QUATORZE JUILLET , 1919

Henri Matisse

Lot 14
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ODALISQUE AU FAUTEUIL NOIR , 1942

Henri Matisse

Lot 7
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