French1869–1954
Henri Matisse
A French artist, above all a painter, known for his colour and his fluid, original drawing, and often ranked with Picasso among the artists who defined early 20th-century art. The intense colour of his work from 1900 to 1905 made him a leader of the Fauves, and in 1917 he moved to Nice on the French Riviera.
A life in paintings
- 1869Born
- 1904Was influenced by Paul SignacSaint-Tropez
Matisse spent summer 1904 with Signac at Saint-Tropez, working alongside him and Henri-Edmond Cross, and learned the Divisionist dot. The result, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, is counted the starting point of Fauvism; Signac bought it.
Source: Wikipedia - 1905The Fauves shock Paris
At the Salon d’Automne a critic calls the painters of wild colour ‘fauves’ — wild beasts.
Worked with André DerainCollioureMatisse and Derain spent summer 1905 painting together at Collioure and came back with the unnatural colour that got them called 'les fauves' at that autumn's Salon d'Automne.
Source: Wikipedia - 1907Taught H. Lyman SaÿenParis
H. Lyman Saÿen joined Matisse's first class (the Académie Matisse) in 1907-08 and took Fauvism back to Philadelphia.
Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum - 1908
- 1954Died
Circles
Exhibition · Paris · 1905
Salon d'Automne 1905 (Fauves)
The show where critic Louis Vauxcelles called Matisse, Derain and their circle 'les fauves'. Rousseau's jungle picture The Hungry Lion hung near Matisse's work, though Rousseau was not a Fauve.
Society · Paris · 1884
Société des Artistes Indépendants
Jury-free annual salon founded 1884 by Seurat, Signac, Dubois-Pillet, Redon and others. Home of Neo-Impressionism; Henri Rousseau first showed there in 1886.
- Fernand Léger
- Georges Seurat
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Maximilien Luce
- Paul Signac
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh