Publication Details Hard cover, 270 x 215 mm (portrait), 264 pp, illustrated in full colour with over 100 artworks as well as photographs. ISBN: 9781741741537
Author and/or Editor name/s Edited by Aurélie Verdier with Justin Paton and Jackie Dunn, with essays by Roger Benjamin, Patrice Deparpe, Justin Paton, Aurélie Verdier and Alastair Wright
Author and/or Editor bio/s Aurélie Verdier is curator of modern art at the Centre Pompidou. Justin Paton is head curator of international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Jackie Dunn is special exhibitions curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Roger Benjamin is professor of art history at the University of Sydney. Alastair Wright is associate professor of the history of art at St John’s College, Oxford. Patrice Deparpe is the director of the Matisse Museum in Cateau-Cambrésis, France. Marjolaine Buezard is an assistant curator at the Centre Pompidou. Anne Théry was a researcher at the Centre Pompidou and is now at the Matisse Archives.
Year of Publication 2021
Publisher Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Abstract Spanning six decades of the artist’s work, ‘Matisse: Life & spirit’ presents an extraordinary immersion in the range and depth of the art of Henri Matisse, one of the world’s most beloved, innovative and influential artists.
The works reach from his early adventures in colour as a Fauvist through to the serene and distilled designs for his chapel in Vence in the south of France. Through paintings, drawings, sculptures and a compelling presentation of his triumphant cut-outs, it reveals how Matisse renewed his vision time and again over his long career, seeking new ways of celebrating the seen world and expressing the energy he felt in it. Highlights include the especially important early work ‘Le luxe I’ 1907; the mid-career masterpiece ‘Decorative figure on an ornamental ground’ 1925; and the majestic self-portrait, ‘The sorrow of the king’ 1952, one of the largest of the famous cut-outs that the artist created in his late career.
Filled with brilliant colour, dynamic energy, visual joy and emotional power and with essays by curators and art historians with special interests in aspects of Matisse’s life and oeuvre including his brief but highly influential time in the Pacific, ‘Matisse: Life & spirit’ offers an inspirational journey through the life and art of this ceaselessly inventive and life-affirming painter.
Developed in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which holds an exceptional collection of works by the artist.
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