Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primari
Matisse in 1913
Woman Reading (La Liseuse), 1895, oil on board, 61.5 x 48 cm, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse
Henri and Amélie Matisse, 1898
Gustave Moreau's Studio, 1894– 1895
Woman with a Hat is an oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Matisse. It depicts Matisse's wife, Amélie Matisse. It was painted in 1905 and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne during the autumn of the same yea
Henri Matisse
…paintings expressed emotion with wild, often dissonant colours, without regard for the subject's natural colours. Matisse showed The Open Window and Woman with a Hat at the Salon. Critic Louis Vauxcelles commented on a lone sculpture surrounded by an "orgy of pure tones" as "Donatello chez les fauves" (Donatello…
Henri Matisse, 1918 Self-Portrait. Oil on canvas.
The apartment of Leo and Gertrude Stein at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, c. 1906, with Femme au Chapeau on the wall.
Matisse's Portrait de Sarah Stein, 1916.