Henri Matisse

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HENRI MATISSE
Text by Carolyn Lanchner
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870707247 | US $9.95
Pub Date: 6/1/2008
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HENRI MATISSE
Text by Sarah Wilson.
POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434312197 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 2/28/2010
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HENRI MATISSE: TRAITS ESSENTIELS
Text by Christophe Cherix, Mayte Julliard.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9782830602333 | US $36.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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HENRI MATISSE: FIGURE COLOR SPACE
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775716017 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2006
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HENRI MATISSE: ZEICHNUNGEN UND GOUACHES
Artwork by Henri Matisse. Contributions by Lydia Delectorskaya, Otrud Dreyer. Text by Jack Flam.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775704458 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 11/2/1993
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Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

Text by Sarah Wilson.
Published by Poligrafa

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is without doubt the most important twentieth-century French artist, and one of the great colorists of art history. His work utterly refutes the cliché that the great discoveries of Modernism were attained by a heroic and violent abandonment of the past: he was firmly grounded in tradition (albeit in a much less restless and ironic approach than Picasso's). In the 1920s, Matisse's odalisques responded to European fantasies of "Oriental splendor"; during the 1930s, more classical themes of nymphs, fauns and the dance were treated in the splendid and sober Barnes murals, illustrations to Mallarmé and James Joyce. Permanently confined to a wheelchair from 1941 (when cancer was diagnosed), he developed his most spiritually uplifting work for the interior design of the Dominican Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, concurrent with his famous paper cut-outs ("cutting directly into color"). Sarah Wilson of the Courtauld Institute provides an introduction to Poligrafa's primer on this Modernist giant.

Henri Matisse

Text by Carolyn Lanchner
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book presents a single artist and guides readers through a dozen of his most memorable achievements. Works are reproduced in color and accompanied by informative and accessible short essays that provide background on the artworks and on the artist himself, illuminating technique, style, subject matter and significance. Written by Carolyn Lanchner, former Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum, these books are excellent resources for readers interested in the stories behind masterpieces of the Modern canon and for those who wish to understand the contributions of individual artists to the history of Modern art. This volume focuses on Matisse.

Henri Matisse: Traits Essentiels

Monotypes 1906-1952

Text by Christophe Cherix, Mayte Julliard.
Published by Walther König, Köln

If painting was for Matisse the expression of a "state of condensed sensations," his engravings consisted of "Traits Essentiels" or "essential lines:" they were recordings of a single sensation, and rarely passed through any series of stages or reworkings. In fact, engraving was a refuge. Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse, co-author of a catalogue raisonné of her father's prints, describes the graphic work he often executed at the end of a painting session as an "agreeable conclusion." After several experiments with drypoint, Matisse turned toward woodcut in 1906 (and gave it up almost immediately), then worked simultaneously in monotype and etching, where he achieved an astonishing tension between surface and line. Later, he turned to linocut and to sugarlift aquatint. It is on these projects that the selection in Traits Essentiels focuses: Lithography, which Matisse practiced from 1906 to 1952, and with which he was less experimental, is excluded. Text in French only.

Henri Matisse: Figure Color Space

Edited by Pia Müller-Tamm. Essays by Gottfried Böhm, Stefan Grohé, Peter Kropmanns, Rémi Labrusse, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Maria Müller, Margret Stuffmann, Beate Süntgen and Katharina Sykora.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

No other subject inspired Henri Matisse with such passion throughout his career as the female figure in interior settings. This is the most comprehensive publication to cover the topic of women in the work of the great regenerator of European painting, and in so doing, it covers the full spectrum of Matisse's creative evolution, from the small, somber, early pictures to the masterly compositions of his Fauvist phase, the intimate pictorial inventions of the Nice period, and finally the luminous paper cutouts of his late work. Many of the interiors show women reading, sleeping or daydreaming, passive figures enveloped in Oriental fabrics, costumed as odalisques or reclining on chaise longues. Additional motifs include the artist and his model, the artist's studio, the portrait, the still-life, and the view from a window. Figure Color Space offers an in-depth survey of this important subject in Matisse's work, through which he developed and continually explored his rich and imaginative repertoire of forms and colors. Along with paintings from all periods, it includes sculptures, drawings, cutouts and prints, as well as historical studio photographs by Cartier-Bresson, Brassaë, Hªl¿ne Adant and others. A richly illustrated biography completes this exquisite presentation.

Henri Matisse: Zeichnungen Und Gouaches

Artwork by Henri Matisse. Contributions by Lydia Delectorskaya, Otrud Dreyer. Text by Jack Flam.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers