

Key paintings will include The Dinner Table (La Desserte), 1897 Luxury, Peace and Pleasure (Luxe, calme et volupté), 1904 The Open Window, Collioure (La fenêtre ouverte, Collioure), 1905 Luxury I (Le Luxe I), 1907 Large Reclining Nude (Grand nu couché ), 1935 The Dream (Le Rêve), 1935 and Blue Nude I (Nu bleu I), 1952.Image description Open Window La fenetre ouverte. The wealth of significant paintings, sculptures and paper cut-outs on display will hold up to view the development and the range of Matisse’s unique body of work.Ĭurated by Raphaël Bouvier, the exhibition will bring together iconic as well as seldom displayed works.


Beginning with the early works created around 1900, it will move on to the revolutionary paintings of Fauvism and the experimental works of the 1910s, the sensual paintings of the Nice period and the 1930s, before culminating in the legendary cut-outs of the 1940s and 1950s.
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The exhibition will span the full range of the artist’s career. Following Baudelaire’s poem, the exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler is thus conceived as a journey through Matisse’s work and life, in which travel played an important part. » A Étretat, Matisse renoue avec les tonalités douces des paysages du nord de la France : » Me voici depuis deux semaines à Étretat, dans les falaises blanches et vertes. Le 18 août 2022 par lisapascaretti dans Art. 1 Celebrated as both an orchestrator of tonal harmonies and a draftsman capable of distilling a form to its. Its poetic leitmotifs of luxury, peace and pleasure («luxe, calme et volupté») are guiding principles of Matisse’s work and capture the very essence of his artistic output. Henri MATISSE Plumes, pointes, palettes et partitions. Throughout his decades-long career as a painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, Henri Matisse continuously searched, in his own words, for the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means. The exhibition takes as its starting point Charles Baudelaire’s poem Invitation to the Voyage (1857), which Matisse repeatedly referred to. La Fenêtre ouverte d’Henri Matisse est une explosion de couleurs électrisante, qui inscrit l’artiste dans le mouvement Fauviste.

Matisse was also an innovator in the realm of sculpture, and in his late cut-outs he devised a distinctive interplay of painting, drawing and sculpture. In freeing colour from the motif and simplifying forms, he redefined painting and imbued art with a hitherto unknown lightness. His ground-breaking work has profoundly influenced generations of artists, from his contemporaries up to the present day. Henri Matisse (1869–1954) ranks among the most famous exponents of modern art. Vik Muniz(born 1961)LACMA (La Gerbe, after Matisse), Repro. The latest in a long line of unparalleled exhibitions such as «Paul Gauguin» (2015), «Monet» (2017) and «The Young Picasso – Blue and Rose Periods» (2019), «Matisse» will be on view at the Fondation Beyeler from 22 September 2024 to 26 January 2025. Tte la fentre ouverte signed with the artists initials and dated J.G. Trois bandes verticales de couleur claire encadrant. Many motifs and key themes of Matisse’s work echo those found in Baudelaire’s poem. La fentre est l'un des thmes rcurrents de l'histoire de la peinture : avec Matisse et Bonnard, elle devient une mtaphore de la peinture elle-mme. It will take as its starting point Charles Baudelaire’s poem « Invitation to the Voyage» (1857). Featuring around 80 works from major European and American museums and private collections, the exhibition will highlight the development and diversity of the artist’s groundbreaking oeuvre. In autumn 2024, the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel will hold the first Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland and the German-speaking world in almost 20 years.
