Henri Matisse French Oil Double Sided Painting – August 29, 2019
Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring woman in blue dress sitting on a blue chair with her back turned toward the viewer. Signed Henri Matisse near bottom left corner. Verso features a half-naked man in blue pants leaning with his head on his left arm. Attributed to Henri Matisse (1869-1954, French). 91 x 65 cm (35.8 x 25.6 inches)
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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the most influential French artists of the 20th century. Matisse’s use of unmodulated color, inventive figuration, and decorative patterns helped redefine many of the formal tenets of painting. “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter,” he once said.
Born Henri-Emile-Benoît Matisse on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France, he took to art relatively late in life after initially pursuing law. First studying painting under Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he quickly adopted the Pointillist ideas espoused by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. With Pointillism as a point of departure, Matisse along with Albert Marquet and Andre Derain, developed a radical method of using pure color to express light, in what became known as Fauvism.
Matisse would return to a style which incorporated both naturalistic and decorative elements, as evinced in his painting Goldfish (1911). In the decades that followed, the artist spent much of his time in the South of France. He painted models dressed as odalisques and ocean views from his hotel room. Late in his career, while bedridden, Matisse produced a number of cutout paper works, including Blue Nude II (1952). The artist died on November 3, 1954 in Nice, France. In 2018, the artist’s Odalisqque couchee aux magnolias (1923) sold for $80,750,000 at Christie’s, an auction record for Matisse.
Today, his works are held in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery in London, among others.
Auction Overview
Richmond Hill, ON – 418 fresh to market items will be available to the discerning buyers and collectors in 888 Auctions’ August 29 auction featuring the finest in MODERN PAINTINGS, SPORTS MEMORABILIA & ANTIQUES 2019-08-29. Taking place in the afternoon at 2 PM (EST), bidders will be competing against one another over a variety of items on display.
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