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Henri Matisse cushion cover - The Blue Nude II
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Henri Matisse cushion cover - "The Blue Nude II (1952)"
Dimensions : 48 x 48 cm.
Composition: 79% Cotton, 8% Acrylic, 6% Polyamide, 5% Polyester, 2% Viscose.
You will find in each tapestry and cusion cover the wealth of an exclusive point of weaving, and the quality of a unique knowledge, using noble materials such as wool and cotton, weaved on true original Jacquard looms.
Made in Flanders in the famous tradition of master weavers in this region.
Beautiful finishes.
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Henri Matisse
Additional cultural and artistic information about the artist
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Main works
Blue Nude (Memory of Biskra) (1907) - one of the first works announcing his streamlined style.
The Dance (1909-1910) and Music (1910) - major commissions from Sergei Shchukin.
The Odalisques (1920s) - series of orientalist nudes influenced by his travels.
Cut-out gouaches (Jazz, 1947) - his last major artistic revolution.
Artistic movements
Fauvism (the movement he led from 1905).
Inspiration, influence
Gustave Moreau (his teacher at the Beaux-Arts, who encouraged him to follow his own style).
Paul Cézanne (The Three Bathers, which he revered and kept throughout his life).
Joseph Mallord William Turner (influence on his work on light).
Paul Signac and pointillism, which he briefly adopted before moving away from it.
Delacroix, Van Gogh, Gauguin (influence on his bold use of color).
His contemporaries
Pablo Picasso (friend and artistic rival, they influenced each other).
André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck (Fauvism partners).
Albert Marquet, Kees van Dongen, Georges Rouault, Raoul Dufy (other Fauvism figures).
Marcel Sembat (first critic and supporter).
Gertrude Stein, Sergueï Chtchoukine (influential collectors who supported him).
Hans Purrmann, Marg Moll, Oskar Moll (students influenced by his academy).
To keep in mind
Henri Matisse is the linchpin of modern art.
He is, in fact, the first to effectively abandon the rules of classicism.
Henri Matisse is one of the greatest innovators of the 20th century. As a leader of Fauvism, he liberated color and form, influencing modern and contemporary painting. A rival and friend of Picasso, he pursued a quest for harmony, particularly in his cut-out gouaches, which renewed abstraction. His influence extends far beyond Fauvism, touching American abstraction, Pop Art, and contemporary art.
Biography of Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse was born in northern France in 1869. Until 1905, he sought through various techniques what would eventually become his "style," a strong pencil stroke that outlines and surrounds non-imitative colors.
As the principal representative of the Fauvist movement, he became one of the great precursors of modern art. From 1908 to 1911, he worked on the creation of wall panels on the theme of music and dance (Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg), marking a turning point in his career. Colors and shapes became the main vectors of emotion expression in his painting.
He later ventured into decorative art with the Sainte-Marie du Rosaire chapel in Vence, and found, with his cut-out gouaches, used for the first time in 1943 during the illustration of the book "Jazz," the synthesis of all his plastic research.
He passed away in Nice in 1953, honored during his lifetime by a museum, inaugurated in 1952, in Cateau-Cambrésis, his hometown.
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