Henri Matisse
Often regarded alongside Picasso as one of the most influential and important artists of the 20th century, Matisse created an exceptional body of over eight hundred graphic works during his long and legendary career. He explored a wide spectrum of techniques, producing lithographs, etchings, aquatints, linogravures, monoprints and wood engravings. They are amongst the most desirable prints available in the contemporary market.
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 - 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
The intense colorism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (wild beasts). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.
After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form. When ill health in his final years prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage.
His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.
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Visage de trois-quarts, 1946£ 12,950.00View more details
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Étude pour Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans, 1942-1943£ 11,650.00View more details
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Le Grand Nu (Duthuit 403), 1906£ 9,750.00View more details
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J'aime Marie, 1948£ 5,025.00View more details
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J'aime Marie, 1948£ 5,025.00View more details
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l'Art Indépendant au Petit Palais , 1937£ 3,500.00View more details
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Untitled (Nude Study for Poesies), 1932£ 3,325.00View more details
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Untitled (Nude Study for Poesies), 1932£ 3,325.00View more details
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Nu Bleu II, 1958£ 3,150.00View more details
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Nu Bleu I, 1958£ 3,150.00View more details
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Nu Bleu VII, 1958£ 2,825.00View more details
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Musée National D'Art Moderne, 1956£ 2,650.00View more details
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Nu Bleu IV, 1958£ 2,650.00View more details
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Nu Bleu I, 1958£ 2,650.00View more details
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Nu Bleu III, 1958£ 2,650.00View more details
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Musée Matisse Danseuse Créole, 1965£ 2,250.00View more details
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The Sculpture of Matisse and Three Paintings with Studies, 1953£ 2,100.00View more details
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La Perruche et la Sirene (The Parakeet and the Mermaid), 1958£ 1,950.00View more details
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Untitled (Profil de Femme), 1943£ 1,925.00View more details
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Tristesse du Roi, 1958£ 1,825.00View more details
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La Piscine I, 1958£ 1,600.00View more details
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La Piscine II, 1958£ 1,600.00View more details
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Nu Aux Oranges, 1958£ 1,250.00View more details
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Decoration Masques, 1958£ 1,125.00View more details
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Decoration Fruits, 1958£ 1,125.00View more details
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Zulma, 1958£ 1,050.00View more details
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Apollon, 1958£ 1,050.00View more details
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Coquelicots, 1958£ 1,025.00View more details
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Venus, 1958£ 1,025.00View more details
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Nu Bleu VI, 1958£ 1,025.00View more details
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Nu Bleu X, 1958£ 1,025.00View more details
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Nu Bleu V, 1958£ 1,025.00View more details
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Femmes et Singes, 1958£ 1,025.00View more details
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Danseuse Creole, 1958£ 1,025.00View more details
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Souvenir d'Oceanie, 1958£ 950.00View more details
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Les Acrobates, 1958£ 950.00View more details
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Baigneuse dans les Roseaux, 1958£ 950.00View more details
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Femme a l'Amphore, 1958£ 950.00View more details
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Fleurs de Neige, 1958£ 950.00View more details
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Acanthes, 1958£ 825.00View more details
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La Negresse, 1958£ 800.00View more details
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Cahiers d'Art - Dessins de Matisse XIX, 1936£ 750.00View more details
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Cahiers d'Art - Dessins de Matisse XV, 1936£ 750.00View more details
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Cahiers d'Art - Dessins de Matisse XX, 1936£ 750.00View more details
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Grenades, 1958£ 750.00View more details
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Cahiers d'Art - Dessins de Matisse XXI, 1936£ 750.00View more details
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Cahiers d'Art - Dessins de Matisse XXIV, 1936£ 750.00View more details
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Femme a l'Amphore et Grenades, 1958£ 700.00View more details
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Lierre, 1958£ 700.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse Fusain Nu IV, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Bateau, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse Portrait de Femme I, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse Fusain Nu III, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse Fusain Nu II, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse Nu Debout, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse Fusain Nu I, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse - Revue Verve - Nu en Robe I, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse, Arbre II, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse, Nu Sans Visage I, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse, Nu Sur Chaise, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse, Portrait de Femme III, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse, Fusain Nu V, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse, Arbre III, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse, Nu en Robe III, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse, Nu Sans Visage III, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse, Nu Sans Visage II, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Poissons Chinois, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Rosace, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Nuit de Noel, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Vigne, 1958£ 650.00View more details
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Musee National d'Art Moderne 1949, 1959£ 350.00View more details
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Exposition D'Affiches , 1959£ 350.00View more details
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Cahiers d'Art - Dessins de Matisse XXVII, 1936View more details
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Cahiers d'Art - Dessins de Matisse XXV, 1936View more details
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Lierre en Fleurs, 1958View more details
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Nu Bleu avec Bas Verts, c1952-54View more details