Art
Framed Matisse Print, "Tahiti"
- Item Number
- 151
- Estimated Value
- 250 USD
- Sold
- 100 USD to Live Event Bidder
Item Description
Framed Mattisse Print, "Tahiti"
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (French: [ÉA?ÌA?ÊA?i matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.[1] Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.[2][3][4][5] Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.[6] 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.[7]
Matisse lived in Tahiti—primarily the Tuamotu islands—for two and a half months, drawing, photographing, taking notes, and observing the sea, sky, vegetation, and the Polynesians, whom he likened to sea gods. According to Paule Laudon’s 2001 book Matisse in Tahiti, the artist led a Robinson Crusoe–like existence, getting up at dawn, canoeing, swimming, and diving amid the coral and fish. Although he produced little finished artwork there, the Tahitian sojourn had a powerful influence on his later work.
Generously donated by Cynthia Meyers
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