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| '''Henri Matisse''' (], ] – ], ]) was a ] ]. | |||
| Influenced by the works of ], ] ] and ], and also by traditional ], Matisse painted in the ] manner, and became known as a leader of that movement. | |||
| He painted with blaze of intense shades, flat shapes and controlled lines, with expression dominant over detail. He depicted mostly domestic scenes and figures. | |||
| Working in a number of modes, but principally as a ], Matisse was one of the few artists to achieve widespread fame during his lifetime. | |||
| He was born '''Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse''' in ], ], France, and grew up in ]. In ] he went to ] to study law, after which worked as a court administrator in ]. | |||
| Following a bout of ] he took up painting during his convalescence. After recovering, he returned to Paris in ] to study art at the ] and studied under ] and ]. | |||
| His work first exhibited in ], and his first solo exhibition was in ]. | |||
| His fondess for bright and expressive colour became more pronounced after he moved southwards to the ] in ] to work with ]. The decline of the Fauvist movement after ] did not affect his work's rise in popularity. Matisse moved through the Fauvist style and created many of his best known works between ] and ] when he was an active amongst the artists gathered in ]. | |||
| Matisse lived in ] on the ], now a suburb of the city of ], from ] until his death in ]. | |||
| In ] he was diagnosed with ] and, following surgery he soon got around in a wheelchair. He continued to create, but when too weak to work at an easel, he created cut paper collages called ''papiers découpés'', often of some size. | |||
| In ], ''La robe persane'' sold for over ]17 million. In ], a Matisse sculpture, ''Reclining Nude I (Dawn),'' sold for ]9.2 million. | |||
| ==Partial list of works== | |||
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| * ''L'Atelier Rose'' (]) | |||
| * ''Zorah on the Terrace'' (]) | |||
| * ''Le Rifain assis'' (]) | |||
| * ''La lecon de musique'' (]) | |||
| * ''The Painter and His Model'' (]) | |||
| * ''Interior At Nice'' (]) | |||
| * ''Odalisque with Raised Arms'' (]) | |||
| * ''Yellow Odalisque'' (]) | |||
| * ''Robe violette et Anemones'' (]) | |||
| * ''Le Reve de 1940'' (]) | |||
| * ''Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge'' (]) | |||
| * ''Jazz'' (]) | |||
| * ''Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire'' (], completed in ]) | |||
| * ''Beasts of the Sea'' (]) | |||
| * ''L'Escargot'' (]) | |||
| ==Resources== | |||
| * Hilary Spurling "The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse", Vol. 1, 1869-1908. London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1998, ISBNt 0679434283 | |||
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