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Face of a woman, Matisse

Pure simplicity!

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Jeune fille lisant - Heni Matisse

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence." -Henri Matisse

More art history. 

Visiting Matisse: The Cut-Outs this weekend before it closes on Tuesday? Be sure to stop by the fifth floor to see his iconic paintings and illuminating monotypes. 

[Installation view, Painting and Sculpture Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art. Shown: all works by Henri Matisse. © 2015 Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

Great stuff! Learn how monotypes are made with our artist Barbara Brock. 

BOLÉRO VIOLET  -  Henri Matisse  1937

Illustrates how important it can be to see art in person. Scale can change a lot about how we perceive an object. In other words, visit a museum or gallery this weekend! 

More art history. 

Matisse, a new documentary about Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, opens in the US January 13! Learn more in The New York Times. Search screenings. 

Pumped for this. 

More art history. 

After five years of conservation and research, Matisse’s The Swimming Pool goes on view Sunday. Get your timed tickets now. 

More on Matisse.

“Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor’s direct carving.” –Henri Matisse

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Amazing shot, amazing quote. 

More art history. 

Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was born today in 1908. Here, he captures another artist named Henri, Henri Matisse. 

[Henri Cartier-Bresson. Henri Matisse, Vence, France. 1944]

Happy belated birthday to Cartier-Bresson! 

More great photography. 

10 July - Happy birthday Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

Image. It’s everything.

It's Camille Pissarro's birthday, too! Happy 184th to Paul Cezanne's masterful mentor. 

“He was a father for me,” Cezanne said. “A man to consult and a little like the good Lord.”

Read more about Pissarro here. 

Henri Matisse

Green. 

 The Interior of 27 rue de Fleurus   (images:  magnesalm.org + fioritinteriordesign.com)

"It was easy to get into the habit of stopping in at 27 rue de Fleurus for warmth and the great pictures and the conversation."  

 ~Ernest Hemingway - A Movable Feast

  Description from Wiki:  ”27 rue de Fleurus is the location of the former home of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas on the Left Bank of Paris. It was also the home of Leo Stein for a time in the early nineteen-hundreds. It was a renowned Saturday evening gathering place for both expatriate American artists and writers and others noteworthy in the world of vanguard arts and letters, most notably Pablo Picasso. In the early decades of the century, hundreds of visitors flocked to the display of vanguard modern art, many came to scoff, but several went away converted.

Entrée into the Stein salon was a sought-after validation, and Stein became combination mentor, critic, and guru to those who gathered around her, including Ernest Hemingway, who described the salon in A Moveable Feast. The principal attraction was the collection of Paul Cézanne oils and watercolors and the early pictures by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso which Gertrude and Leo had had the funds and the foresight to buy. The walls of their atelier at 27 rue de Fleurus were hung to the ceiling with now-famous paintings, the double doors of the dining room were lined with Picasso sketches. On a typical Saturday evening one would have found Gertrude Stein at her post in the atelier, garbed in brown corduroy, sitting in a high-backed Renaissance chair, her legs dangling, next to the big cast-iron stove that heated the chilly room. A few feet away, Leo Stein would expound to a group of visitors his views on modern art.

In 1933, Stein published a kind of memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention.

The gatherings in the Stein home “brought together confluences of talent and thinking that would help define modernism in literature and art.” Dedicated attendees included Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Guillaume Apollinaire, Sinclair Lewis, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Thornton Wilder, Juan Gris, Sherwood Anderson, Francis Cyril Rose, René Crevel, Élisabeth de Gramont, Francis Picabia, Claribel Cone, Mildred Aldrich, Carl Van Vechten and Henri Matisse. Saturday evenings had been set as the fixed day and time for formal congregation so Stein could work at her writing uninterrupted by impromptu visitors. It was Stein’s partner Alice who became the de facto hostess for the wives and girlfriends of the artists in attendance, who met in a separate room.

Gertrude herself attributed the beginnings of the Saturday evening salons to Matisse, as

 ”[m]ore and more frequently, people began visiting to see the Matisse paintings—and the Cézannes: “Matisse brought people, everybody brought somebody, and they came at any time and it began to be a nuisance, and it was in this way that Saturday evenings began.”

Among Picasso’s acquaintances who frequented the Saturday evenings were: Fernande Olivier (Picasso’s mistress), Georges Braque (artist), André Derain (artist), Max Jacob(poet), Guillaume Apollinaire (poet), Marie Laurencin (artist, and Apollinaire’s mistress), Henri Rousseau (painter), and Joseph Stella.”  via: wiki

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