Henri Matisse
Henri-Emile-Benoît Matisse was born on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. He grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois and studied law in Paris from 1887 to 1888. By 1891, he had abandoned law and started to paint. In Paris, Matisse studied art briefly at the Académie Julian and then at the École des Beaux-Arts with Gustave Moreau.
In 1901 Matisse exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris and met another future leader of the Fauvism movement, Maurice de Vlaminck. His first solo show took place at the Galerie Vollard in 1904. Like many avant-garde artists in Paris, Matisse was receptive to a broad range of influences. He was one of the first painters to take an interest in 'primitive' art. His subjects were primarily women, interiors and still lifes. In 1913 his work was included in the Armory Show in New York.
From the early 1920s until 1939 Matisse divided his time primarily between the South of France and Paris. During this period, he worked on paintings, sculptures, lithographs and etchings, as well as on murals for the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, and set and costume designs for Léonide Massine's ballet Rouge et Noir. In 1951 a major retrospective of his work was presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and then travelled to Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco. In 1952, the Musée Matisse was inaugurated at the artist's birthplace of Le Cateau-Cambrésis. He died on November 3, 1954 in Nice.
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Henri MatisseAcanthes, 1954£800.00
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Henri MatisseApollon, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseBaigneuse dans les Roseaux, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseCoquelicots, 1954£500.00
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Henri MatisseDécoration - Fruits, 1954£650.00
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Henri MatisseFemmes et Singes, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseL'Escargot, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseLa Négresse, 1954Reserved
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Henri MatisseLa Piscine I, 1954£950.00
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Henri MatisseLa Piscine II, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseLierre, 1954
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Henri MatisseLierre en Fleur, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu I, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu II, 1954£700.00
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu III, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu IV, 1954£700.00
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu IX, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu V, 1954£950.00
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu VII, 1954£700.00
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu VIII, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu X, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseNu Bleu XII , 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseNuit de Noël, 1954Sold
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Henri MatissePoissons Chinois, 1954£750.00
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Henri MatisseRosace, 1954£450.00
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Henri MatisseSouvenir D'Océanie, 1954£950.00
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Henri MatisseVégétaux, 1954Sold
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Henri MatisseVigne, 1954£450.00
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Henri MatisseZulma, 1954£950.00
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Henri MatisseThe Dancer, 1949£995.00
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Henri MatisseBack Cover. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948£1,250.00
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Henri MatisseCover Page. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£1,450.00
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Henri MatissePlate 102. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£450.00
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Henri MatissePlate 107. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£450.00
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Henri MatissePlate 113. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948£1,950.00
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Henri MatissePlate 141. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£1,750.00
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Henri MatissePlate 152. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948£1,750.00
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Henri MatissePlate 153. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948£1,750.00
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Henri MatissePlate 155. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948£1,750.00
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Henri MatissePlate 163. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£2,450.00
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Henri MatissePlate 176. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£950.00
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Henri MatissePlate 180. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£1,750.00
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Henri MatissePlate 181. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£550.00
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Henri MatissePlate 185. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948£950.00
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Henri MatissePlate 52. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948£550.00
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Henri MatissePlate 53. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£2,450.00
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Henri MatissePlate 62. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948Sold
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Henri MatissePlate 74. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948£1,950.00
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Henri MatissePlate 99. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard , 1948£2,450.00
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Henri MatisseÀ la Mémoire de Angèle Lamotte I, 1945£500.00
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Henri MatisseFrom ‘Matisse - de la Couleur’, 1945£500.00
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Henri Matisse | Cutting into Colour
15 Aug - 8 Sep 2024View the full exhibition online here Eames Fine Art is delighted to be exhibiting the full suite of Henri Matisse's 1954 lithographs in the gallery this August. In the years...Read more -
Henri Matisse | Line and Colour
11 Jan - 19 Feb 2023Matisse didn't just draw images of people; he captured entire personalities and whole worlds with unimaginably few lines and deceptively simple shapes. With the works offered in this exhibition, Matisse...Read more -
Behind The Mirror
Original lithographs from Derrière le Miroir and Verve Periodicals from the 20th Century 7 Aug - 1 Sep 2019Two exceptional art publications captured the zeitgeist of modern art in Paris in the middle of the twentieth century. Derrière le Miroir ('Behind the Mirror') and Verve were both art...Read more