Matisse (Art Ebook).pdf

Oxford | Pdf | Eng | ISBN10 0195204646 | 248 pages | 36.5 MB

nicholas watkins
223 illustrations, 97 in colour

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is probably the outstanding painter of the twentieth century and one of the greatest of all colourists. In this lively and informed account of his art, Matisse's long career is traced from the Fauve paintings of the 1905 Salon d'Automne and the grand decorations for the Russian merchant Sergei Shchukin, through the intimate 'symphonic interiors', the exotic Moroccan triptych, and the modern methods of The Moroccans and Bathers by a River, to the vision of leisure in Nice, the triumphant Barnes murals, and the final flowering of the paper cut-outs, culminating in his masterpiece, the Vence Chapel.